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Transit Theodolite
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Playfair, John, Professor (b.1748, d.1819)
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b.1748, d.1819
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Scottish
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Professor John Playfair
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Troughton, Edward (b.1753, d.1835)
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Troughton, Edward
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Edward Troughton
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1806
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As the inscription records, this handsome instrument, made by the London firm of Edward Troughton in 1806, was presented to Professor John Playfair of the University of Edinburgh by his senior mathematical students. Playfair bequeathed it to the Astronomical Institution, forerunner of the Royal Observatory, who subsequently transferred it to the Royal Museum. During its time in the Observatory, Charles Piazzi Smyth took it on his pioneering high altitude astronomy expedition to Tenerife. A theodolite is an instrument for measuring vertical and horizontal angles by means of a telescope mounted on an axis made vertical with levelling screws. Circular graduated plates measure the angles through which the telescope rotates. In a transit theodolite the telescope can be completely rotated about its horizontal axis.
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As the inscription records, this handsome instrument, made by the London firm of Edward Troughton in 1806, was presented to Professor John Playfair of the University of Edinburgh by his senior mathematical students. Playfair bequeathed it to the Astronomical Institution, forerunner of the Royal Observatory, who subsequently transferred it to the Royal Museum. During its time in the Observatory, Charles Piazzi Smyth took it on his pioneering high altitude astronomy expedition to Tenerife. A theodolite is an instrument for measuring vertical and horizontal angles by means of a telescope mounted on an axis made vertical with levelling screws. Circular graduated plates measure the angles through which the telescope rotates. In a transit theodolite the telescope can be completely rotated about its horizontal axis.
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National Museum of Scotland
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Edinburgh University Library Photography Department
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ol0068
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Courtesy of The Trustees of The National Museums of Scotland
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