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Diagram, floating collimator by [Henry Kater?]

Reference number: PT/73/11/10

Date: 1825

Description

Plate 13 showing a diagram of Henry Kater's floating collimator, designed to replace the use of a plumb-line in astronomical observations. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Scientific Instruments

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'The description of a floating Collimator' by Henry Kater.

Read to the Royal Society on 13 January 1825.

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PT/73/11/10
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1825
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Ink on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Diagram

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Henry Kater

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Henry Kater, Diagram, floating collimator by [Henry Kater?], 1825, PT/73/11/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_11_10/diagram-floating-collimator-by-henry-kater, accessed on 17 February 2025

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