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Subject Scientific Equipment Material Type Photographs

1. 010095.de.56(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
010095.de.56(12)
Title:
Alta Vista Observatory, from the northern lava ridge. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 303, looking down onto the stone buildings of the observing station, with the telescope visible.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 item

2. 010095.de.56(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
010095.de.56(4)
Title:
Tent scene on Mount Guajara, 8903 feet high. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 103 and showing tents, a telescope and other equipment, with a female figure (Mrs Jessie Smyth), posed among the impedimenta: 'At the back, and on either side of the tent, ran dwarf stone walls, to keep off the wind; the narrow interven...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 item

3. 010095.de.56(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
010095.de.56(5)
Title:
Sheepshanks telescope first erected on Mount Guajara, the peak of Teneriffe in the distance. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 131, showing the erected telescope, with two figures posed among the equipment at the base.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 item

4. 010095.de.56(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
010095.de.56(7)
Title:
Second mate of yacht observing radiation thermometers on Mount Guajara. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 173, showing the second mate, standing among scientific equipment: 'To chronicle the exact circumstances under which these high results appeared, the photographic camera was employed with effect. Accordingly in Stereograph, No. 7, may b...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 item

5. 1787.d.7, 4(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 4(10)
Title:
Peking Observatory. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Close view of astronomical instruments in the old Jesuit observatory in Beijing.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

6. 1787.d.7, 4(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 4(11)
Title:
Peking Observatory. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Arched top. Close view of astronomical instruments in the old Jesuit observatory in Beijing.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

7. 1800.b.1(52)

Reference (shelfmark):
1800.b.1(52)
Title:
Horloges et instruments astronomiques. Photographer: Bayer, Charles
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of a collection of instruments, including two 17th-century clocks (1, 244), two astronomical globes from the 15th and 17th centuries (486, 654) and three 15th- and 16th-century astrolabes (653, 655, 656).
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1859
Extent:
1 item

8. 8560.i.22, 1(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
8560.i.22, 1(3)
Title:
The equitorial camera [Camorta, Nicobar Islands]. Photographer: Waterhouse, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography Showing the telescopic camera for the observation of the total solar eclipse at Camorta, being set up at the observation station by members of the Indian party.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1875
Extent:
1 item

9. 8560.i.22, 1(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
8560.i.22, 1(4)
Title:
The Browning Reflector, with spectroscopic camera attached [Camorta, Nicobar Islands]. Photographer: Waterhouse, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography General view of the reflector and camera set up at the observing station of the Eclipse Expedition.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1875
Extent:
1 item

10. 8560.i.22, 1(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
8560.i.22, 1(5)
Title:
The single prism spectroscope, with heliostat and Janssen apparatus [Camorta, Nicobar Islands]. Photographer: Waterhouse, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Scientific Photography General view of equipment set up at the observing station.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1875
Extent:
1 item

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