Heliostat and other instruments, photographic study of a collection of instruments for demonstration of polarised light by Claude-Marie Ferrier
MS. 23051 photogr. 171
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Heliostat and other instruments, photographic study of a collection of instruments for demonstration of polarised light by Claude-Marie Ferrier
Shelfmark
MS. 23051 photogr. 171
Summary
Heliostat and other instruments, photographic study of a collection of instruments for demonstration of polarised light and other physical experiments by Claude-Marie Ferrier for Dubosq-Soleil. The objects in the photograph were exhibited by Dubosq-Soleil at the Great Exhibition of 1851. The instruments include a saccharometer on the left, a heliostat in the centre and a haloscope on the right.
Date
1851
Language
English
Physical facet
Salted Paper print
Physical extent
1 item
Custodial history
Purchased from Richard Meara UK, 27/02/2007.
Subject
Great Exhibition
Scientific apparatus and instruments
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Collection contents
The Michael and Jane Wilson Collection of Nineteenth Century Photographs
Prints
Heliostat and other instruments, photographic study of a collection of instruments for demonstration of polarised light by Claude-Marie Ferrier
