Bohnenberg Apparatus
notes: label: Description
content: Johann von Bohnenberger (1765-1832) was a German astronomer who, in 1817, described an instrument that served to explain the rotation of the earth around its axis. Bohnenberger’s apparatus was soon to be had from several instrument makers and dealers. This unsigned example came from the Department of Physics at the University of Virginia
label: Description
content: Ref: “Beschreibung einer Maschine, welche die Gesetze der Umdrehung der Erde um ihre Axe, und der Veränderung der Lage der Erdaxe zum erläutern dient,” <i>Tubingen Blätter fur Naturwissenschaft<i> 3 (1816): 72-83; and <i>Gilbert’s Annalen</i> (1818): 60-71.
label: Description
content: Benjamin Pike, Jr., <i>Pile’s Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments</i> (New York, 1848), vol. 1, p. 142.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Virginia Department of Physics through Professor John W. Stewart
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.323392
label: catalog number
content: 323392
label: accession number
content: 251562
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bohnenberg Apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/4 in; 18.415 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/8 in x 3 1/8 in; 18.7325 cm x 7.9375 cm