Unpublished paper, 'On the focometry of lenses and lens-combinations; and on a new focometer' by Silvanus P [Phillips] Thompson
Reference number: AP/67/6
Date: 1891
Description
Thompson presents his focometer, providing a description of the instrument and its uses.
Annotations in pencil. Includes a photograph and sketch of Thompson's focometer.
Subject: Optics / Scientific apparatus and instruments
Received 4 February 1891. Read 19 February 1891. Communicated by Professor G [George] Carey Foster.
Written by Thompson at City and Guilds Technical College, Finsbury [London].
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 49 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the focometry of lenses and lens-combinations, and on a new focometer'.
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- AP/67/6
- Earliest possible date
- 1891
- Physical description
- Inkand graphite pencil on paper
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- 37 pages
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- Manuscript
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Silvanus Phillips Thompson, Unpublished paper, 'On the focometry of lenses and lens-combinations; and on a new focometer' by Silvanus P [Phillips] Thompson, 1891, AP/67/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_67_6/unpublished-paper-on-the-focometry-of-lenses-and-lens-combinations-and-on-a-new-focometer-by-silvanus-p-phillips-thompson, accessed on 03 October 2024
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Ill. On the focometry of lenses and lens-combinations, and on a new focometer External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1891
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1890.0087
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Referee's report by Richard Tetley Glazebrook, on a paper 'On the focometry of lenses and lens-combinations, and on a new focometer' by Silvanus Phillips Thompson
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Referee's report and letter by Robert Bellamy Clifton, on a paper 'On the focometry of lenses and lens-combinations, and on a new focometer' by Silvanus Phillips Thompson
Creator: Robert Bellamy Clifton Reference number: RR/11/98
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Archived papers: volume 67, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1890-1891
1890-1891 Reference number: AP/67
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