Paper, 'A dioptrick problem, why four convex glasses in a telescope shew objects erect' by Will Molineux [William Molyneux]
Reference number: CLP/2/14
Date: 03 November 1686

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Molyneux explains the dioptric issue of convex glasses in telescopes showing objects upright when there is a single lens, inverted with two lenses, upright with three, and still upright with four lenses.
Subject: Optics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A dioptrick problem, why four convex-glasses in a telescope, shew objects erect'.
The paper is also found in the 'Journal des Scavans' for Monday 17 September 1685, p 466.
Read to the Royal Society on 3 November 1686.
- Reference number
- CLP/2/14
- Earliest possible date
- 03 November 1686
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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William Molyneux, Paper, 'A dioptrick problem, why four convex glasses in a telescope shew objects erect' by Will Molineux [William Molyneux], 03 November 1686, CLP/2/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_2_14/paper-a-dioptrick-problem-why-four-convex-glasses-in-a-telescope-shew-objects-erect-by-will-molineux-william-molyneux, accessed on 07 February 2025
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Date: 1st September 1686
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Classified papers: volume 2 concerning 'Surveying, Opticks, Perspective, Sculpture, Painting, Music, Acoustics Mechanicks'
1656-1737 Reference number: CLP/2
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