Transcript: List of Instruments to be lent
'List of Instruments to be lent by the Board of Longitude for making Astronomical Observations at Botany Bay', November 1786.
List of Instruments to be lent by the Board of Longitude for making Astronomical Observations at Botany Bay
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An Astronomical Quadrant
A 3 ½ Feet treble Object Glass, Achromatic Telescope, by Dollond, with a Micrometer with Oblique Wires, to be further provided with sliding Tubes to steady the Telescope, and a common Wire Micrometer for measuring Differences of Right Ascension.
One right Glass
An Astronomical Clock
A Journeyman Clock -----------
An Alarum Clock -----------
A Pocket Watch, with a Second hand & Ruby Pallets
An Old Sextant by Ramsden
'A portable Barometer
Two Thermometers
A circular Protractor, with a Glass having Lines on it intersecting each other in the Center
A Beam Compass Scale of Equal Parts
Square ?
Books.
Gardiners Logorithims
Copy of Sherwins Logarithims
Copy of Requisite Tables
Copy of the nautical Almanacs from 1787 – 1792 --------
