Paper, 'Of the invention of optick glasses, telescopes, spectacles etc' by unknown author
Reference number: CLP/2/20
Date: 1727
Description
The paper details the history of the invention of telescopes and glasses in spectacles and summarises theories by other academics about the origins of these inventions.
Subject: Scientific Instruments / Optics
Communicated by Dr de la Motte. Read to the Royal Society on 1 February 1727.
- Reference number
- CLP/2/20
- Earliest possible date
- 1727
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 22 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Paper, 'Of the invention of optick glasses, telescopes, spectacles etc' by unknown author, 1727, CLP/2/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_2_20/paper-of-the-invention-of-optick-glasses-telescopes-spectacles-etc-by-unknown-author, accessed on 16 March 2025
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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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The 'Classified Papers' of the Royal Society are papers from British and international natural philosophers and scholars categorised according to subject areas.
Dates: 1592 - 1741
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