Heliostat, after Klinkerfues — Teylers Museum

Heliostat, after Klinkerfues

1865

The sun is a beautiful bright source of light. But how to use such an object, which is moving across the sky, to project something? For projection a beam of light has to have a fixed direction. In the 18th century, scientists such as ’s Gravesande and Fahrenheit had already devised a solution for this problem. The fixed beam of light was obtained by coupling a clock to a moving mirror in a smart way. This vastly improved, 19th century design of the German Klinkerfues was specially made for an accompanying spectrometer (cat. no. 607 / FK 0395). Both instruments were acquired by the conservator Van der Willigen, presumably for the new observatory then being built in the museum garden.

Administration name

Fysisch Kabinet

Title

Heliostat, after Klinkerfues

Translated title

Heliostat, after Klinkerfues

Creator

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Object category

optica

Dating

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Measurements

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Object number

FK 0310

Reproduction reference

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