Drawings, terrestrial globes with equators, poles, ellipses, and quadrants by [Abraham Robertson]
Reference number: PT/73/5/7
Date: 1816
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Plate 6, figures 1-6 showing terrestrial globes with equators, poles, ellipses, and quadrants. The drawings are inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked 'Allee 1813'.
Subject: Astronomy / Geodesy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Demonstrations of the late Dr. Maskelyne's formulæ for finding the longitude and latitude of a celestial object from its right ascension and declination; and for finding its right ascension and declination from its longitude and latitude, the obliquity of the ecliptic being given in both cases' by Abraham Robertson.
Read to the Royal Society on 15 February 1816.
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- PT/73/5/7
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- 1816
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- Ink on paper
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- Drawing
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Abraham Robertson, Drawings, terrestrial globes with equators, poles, ellipses, and quadrants by [Abraham Robertson], 1816, PT/73/5/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_5_7/drawings-terrestrial-globes-with-equators-poles-ellipses-and-quadrants-by-abraham-robertson, accessed on 09 December 2025
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Demonstrations of the late Dr. Maskelyne's formulæ for finding the longitude and latitude of a celestial object from its right ascension and declination; and for finding its right ascension and declination from its longitude and latitude, the obliquity of the ecliptic being given in both cases External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1833
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0032
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VIII. Demonstrations of the late Dr. Maskelyne's formulæ for finding the longitude and latitude of a celestial object from its right ascension and declination; and for finding its right ascension and declination from its longitude and latitude, the obliquity of the ecliptic being given in both cases External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1816
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1816.0009
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Paper, 'Demonstrations of the late Dr Maskelyne's formulae for finding the longitude and latitude of a celestial object from its right ascension and declination; and for finding its right ascension and declination from its longitude and latitude, the obliquity of the ecliptic being given in both cases' by Abram [Abraham] Robertson
Creator: Abraham Robertson Reference number: PT/10/8
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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 106
1815-1816 Reference number: PT/73/5
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