Madras Observatory interior mb-width 4372 Coal and Cotton

Coal and Cotton

20th August 1962

'View of the building in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition

he is addressed by a foppishly dressed Frenchman

Twelve figures lettered a-m

Madras Observatory interior mb-width 4372 Coal and CottonPlate 14 from the paper 'Observations for ascertaining the length of the Pendulum at Madras in the East Indies, latitude 13 4' 9', 1N. with the conclusions drawn from the same', by John Goldingham, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 112 (1822), pp. 127 170. The painting shows three figures, one British and two Indian, taking an observation using a telescope and pendulum of the type used and described by Captain Henry Kater.