10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIPLEIDOSCOPE»
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dipleidoscope in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
dipleidoscope and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Art
THE DIPLEIDOSCOPE. ( Continued from page Method of Placing the
Dipleidoscope? and Directions for Testing. To illustrate and explain the method
of placing the Dipleidoscope in the meridian, let us imagine a gentleman to
reside at Dover.
2
Scientific Instruments, 1500-1900: An Introduction
Dipleidoscope In March 1843, Edward John Dent, the noted chronometer maker,
put on the market a newly patented device for noting the meridian passage of the
Sun with great accuracy, which he named the dipleidoscope ('double image ...
3
Scientific American The Amateur Astronomer
When the dipleidoscope is held at an angle which reflects light from the satellite
into the eye, two images will be seen. One image is reflected by the cover glass,
the other by the mirrors. As the satellite passes overhead, the two images move ...
Scientific American, Shawn Carlson, 2008
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the horological journal
" clock fast," or " clock slow," accompanying the table. All the preparatory steps
above alluded to having been taken, the instrument is now to be permanently
fixed. The criterion for determining the position of the dipleidoscope is, that the
two ...
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Nineteenth-century Scientific Instruments
\J9~2 Two examples of the Dent dipleidoscope. Left, signed: E.I. DENT LONDON
PATENTEE ; inscribed below the base with the serial number: 1592. The prism
housing is mounted on an axis that can be inclined from 0° to 90°. The hour arc ...
Gerard L'Estrange Turner, 1983
6
Big Ben: the Great Clock and the Bells at the Palace of ...
Denison appears to have got on well with Frederick, since a book authored by
Frederick Dent appeared in 1855. It was entitled Treatise on Clock and Watch
Work with an Appendix on the Dipleidoscope. This was a reprint of Denison's
version ...
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A rudimentary treatise on clock and watch making
... who makes them, and from whom also Mr. Bloxam's pamphlet on the principles
and construction of the dipleidoscope may be had, as well as the amiual
equation table, which is for this year that given a few pages back, to the nearest
second ...
8
Hunt's Hand-Book to the Official Catalogues of the Great ...
... in a manner corresponding with the position of the two silvered planes seen in
the instrument, he can reflect the sun's rays again out of the window. Now, if we
imagine the window to represent the 374 [Class X. THE DIPLEIDOSCOPE.
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The life and letters of Edward John Dent, chronometer maker, ...
Bloxam's diagram showed a rather long telescope for viewing the Dipleidoscope,
and Dent, in his first booklet on the Dipleidoscope, published in 1843, gave an
illustration of one of these instruments complete with a telescope, and also of one
...
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Containing ...
I showed this to an astronomical friend who told me of Dent's dipleidoscope of
which I had not heard, and he gave me the one to which I have referred. As
Dent's instrument was certainly the neater of the two, I said no more about mine.
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