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Description: | Small transit with bronze tube, brass fittings and cast-iron stand with 3 adjusting screws. Axially rotating eyepiece with diagonal mirror. No calibrated vertical circle. See description by A.J. Frost. This instrument is the exemplar instrument describe in "A Treatise on the Tranist Instrument applied to the determination of time for the use of country gentlemen" by Latimer Clark (London, Westminster, 1882). The library has Charles Niven's copy into which are penned the coordinates of King's College observatory as 57° 9' 50" latitude and 2° 5' 56.4" longitude. Also present are transit tables on final pages of which has been added "Clark's patent improved transit instruments for obtaining true time. Description, Price Lists and Testimonials" by A. J. Frost. | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDNP University of Aberdeen, Natural Philosophy Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1882-1882 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Creator: | A. J. Frost FECIT 1882 6 Westminster Chambers on central plate with compass points | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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