- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- John Russell
- Provenance
- Presented by the Radcliffe Trustees. From the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford.
- Physical material
- Paper
- Object type
- Dimensions
- Height: 872mm Width: 575mm
- Inventory No
- 11958.0.1
Description
One of the two 'Lunar Planispheres', this showing the moon in false oblique light, with caption and date 1806 and a correction scale beneath. Companion is 87967, and a third (unfinished) engraved lunar map is 11959. In modern Museum frame.
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