Skip to content

Please be aware that some material may contain words, descriptions or illustrations which will not reflect current scientific understanding and may be considered in today's context inaccurate, unethical, offensive or distressing.

The Royal Society: Science in the Making

Diagrams, speculum and polishing machine by unknown artist

Reference number: PT/74/7/9

Date: 1840

Description

Plates 20-21, figures 1-9 showing a large speculum and a polishing machine used in Parsons' experiments using his reflecting telescope. Figures drawn separately and pasted onto backing sheet. An ink inscription verso reads 'Lord Oxmantown'. Not signed.

Subject: Scientific Instruments / Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'An account of experiments on the reflecting telescope' by William Parsons.

Received by the Royal Society on 9 May 1840. Read 18 June 1840.

Reference number
PT/74/7/9
Earliest possible date
1840
Physical description
Ink and ink wash on card; mounted on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Diagram

Creator name

William Parsons

View page for William Parsons

Use this record

IIIF manifest

View​ IIIF ​ manifest Opens in new tab

Open in Mirador viewer Opens in new tab

Export this record

Download PDF Opens in new tab

Citation

William Parsons, Diagrams, speculum and polishing machine by unknown artist, 1840, PT/74/7/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_74_7_9/diagrams-speculum-and-polishing-machine-by-unknown-artist, accessed on 12 October 2024

Link to this record

https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_74_7_9/diagrams-speculum-and-polishing-machine-by-unknown-artist

Embed this record

<iframe src="https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/embed/items/pt_74_7_9/diagrams-speculum-and-polishing-machine-by-unknown-artist" title="Diagrams, speculum and polishing machine by unknown artist" allow="fullscreen" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="500px"></iframe>

Related Publications

Related Records

Hierarchy

This item is part of:

Related Fellows

Explore the collection

  • Philosophical Transactions

    Dates: 1802-1865

    The 'Philosophical Transactions' collection comprises manuscript versions of papers published in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world’s first and longest continuously running journal dedicated to science.

    View collection