Photo entitled 'Gol Yantr and Kapalia Yantr'

PART OF:: Photo album entitled 'Photographs W. G.'

Made:: 1876-1923

maker:: South Kensington Museum

A photograph of a model of Celestial hemispheres (Kapali) and equatorially mounted circles (Chakra Yantra) in the Jaipur Observatory with a caption that states: '30647. Models of old astronomical instruments in the Jeypor Observatory. (Scale 1:24) With the two equatorial mounted circles the time of the eclipses could be determined. 1887. Lent by Surgeon-Major T.H. Hendley'.

Details

Extent:: 1 photograph

Identifier:: CORP/SCM/Z/111/42/012

Access:: Open access

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