Madras Observatory interior mb-width 4372 Little Winchester Street

Little Winchester Street

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

Formerly the site of an abbey

Twelve figures lettered a-m

Coal and Cotton

Madras Observatory interior mb-width 4372 Little Winchester StreetPlate 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.