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Diagram, transit telescope at Cambridge Observatory by unknown artist

Reference number: PT/73/11/23

Date: 1825

Description

Plate 27 showing a diagram of the transit telescope at Cambridge Observatory. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Written up the left side of the plate and struck out is 'Mr Woodhouse's Paper no XVII'. A pencil inscription in the bottom right reads 'Js [James] Basire sculpt.' Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.

Subject: Scientific Instruments

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Some account of the transit instrument made by Mr. Dollond, and lately put up at the Cambridge Observatory' by Robert Woodhouse.

Read to the Royal Society on 19 May 1825.

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PT/73/11/23
Earliest possible date
1825
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Diagram

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Robert Woodhouse

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Robert Woodhouse, Diagram, transit telescope at Cambridge Observatory by unknown artist, 1825, PT/73/11/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_11_23/diagram-transit-telescope-at-cambridge-observatory-by-unknown-artist, accessed on 13 May 2026

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    Dates: 1802 - 1865

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