Paper, 'A simple instrument for drawing architecture in perspective' by James Peacock
Reference number: L&P/8/140
Date: 1785

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Contains three plates.
Subject: Engineering/Mathematics
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Sketches and descriptions of three simple instruments for drawing architecture and machinery in perspective.'
Read 17 March 1785
- Reference number
- L&P/8/140
- Earliest possible date
- 1785
- Physical description
- Ink on paper and three plates
- Page extent
- 12 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Paper, 'A simple instrument for drawing architecture in perspective' by James Peacock, 1785, L&P/8/140, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_140/paper-a-simple-instrument-for-drawing-architecture-in-perspective-by-james-peacock, accessed on 11 February 2025
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Date: 31st December 1785
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1785.0022
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