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Call Number:

PH-02201

Collection Name:

Report on the Teneriffe Astronomical Experiment of 1856

Creator:

Smyth, C. Piazzi (Charles Piazzi), 1819-1900 (1819 - 1900)

No. of Items:

2 items

Span Dates:

1856

Description:

Smyth, C. Piazzi (Charles Piazzi), 1819-1900.

Report on the Teneriffe Astronomical Experiment of 1856: addressed to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty (London: 1858). Printed by Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1858.

964:3583:0001 -- Stereoscopic Map of the Peak and Great Crater of Teneriffe;

964:3583:0002 -- The Alta-Vista Observatory of 1856, At Height of 10,702 feet above the sea.

Accession No(s):

964:3583:0001-0002; Ashmolean Institute, Oxford. Library, former owner.; The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, former owner; Gernsheim, Helmut, 1913-, former owner

Location(s):

DP 302 C49 S59 1858 HRC-P (964:3583:0001-0002)
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