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Paper, 'On the light of the Cassegrainian telescope, compared with that of the Gregorian' by Brigade Major Henry Kater

Reference number: PT/7/25

Date: 22 April 1813

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Subject: Scentific Instruments / Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the light of the Cassegrainian telescope, compared with that of the Gregorian'.

Written by Kater in Ipswich. Communicated by Sir Joseph Banks. Read 27 May 1813.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 1, 1832.

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PT/7/25
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22 April 1813
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9 pages
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Henry Kater, Paper, 'On the light of the Cassegrainian telescope, compared with that of the Gregorian' by Brigade Major Henry Kater, 22 April 1813, PT/7/25, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_7_25/paper-on-the-light-of-the-cassegrainian-telescope-compared-with-that-of-the-gregorian-by-brigade-major-henry-kater, accessed on 05 December 2024

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