Drawing, periscopic camera obscura by [William Hyde Wollaston]
Reference number: PT/73/3/4
Date: 01 January 1812
Description
Plate 9 containing five figures sketching basic optical details of a conventional and periscopic camera obscura, periscopic prism of a camera lucida, and a periscopic microscope. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked 'Ivy Mill 1807'.
Subject: Optics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On a periscopic camera obscura and microscope' by William Hyde Wollaston.
Read to the Royal Society on 11 June 1812.
- Reference number
- PT/73/3/4
- Earliest possible date
- 01 January 1812
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- Ink on paper
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- 1 page
- Format
- Drawing
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William Hyde Wollaston, Drawing, periscopic camera obscura by [William Hyde Wollaston], 01 January 1812, PT/73/3/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_3_4/drawing-periscopic-camera-obscura-by-william-hyde-wollaston, accessed on 15 August 2026
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On a periscopic camera obscura and microscope External link, opens in new tab.
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DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0253
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Date: 31st December 1812
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1812.0021
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Paper, 'On a periscopic camera obscura and microscope' by Wm [William] Hyde Wollaston
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1807-1833
1807-1833 Reference number: PT/73 -
Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 102
1811-1812 Reference number: PT/73/3
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