Paper, 'A contrivance to make the poles of the diurnal motion in a celestial globe pass round the poles of the ecliptic' by John Senex
Reference number: CLP/7ii/16
Date: 04 May 1738
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Senex explains that 'the poles of the diurnal motion do not enter into the globe, but are affixed at one end, to two shoulders or arms of brass, at the distance of 23 degrees and an half from the poles of the ecliptic.' Includes one labelled figure in the text of a section of the celestial globe and the axis or poles of the diurnal motion.
Subject: Cartography
Read to the Royal Society on 4 May 1738
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A contrivance to make the poles of the diurnal motion in a celestial globe pass round the poles of the ecliptic. Invented by John Senex, F. R. S. read at a meeting of the Royal Society, May 4. 1738'
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- CLP/7ii/16
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- 04 May 1738
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- 3 pages
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John Senex, Paper, 'A contrivance to make the poles of the diurnal motion in a celestial globe pass round the poles of the ecliptic' by John Senex, 04 May 1738, CLP/7ii/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_7ii_16/paper-a-contrivance-to-make-the-poles-of-the-diurnal-motion-in-a-celestial-globe-pass-round-the-poles-of-the-ecliptic-by-john-senex, accessed on 27 April 2025
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Classified papers: volume 7ii concerning 'Architecture, Ship-building, Geography, Navigation, Voyages, Travels'
1721-1739 Reference number: CLP/7ii
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Dates: 1592 - 1741
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