Paper, 'The description of a new instrument for taking angles' by John Hadley

Reference number: CLP/2/21

Date: 1731

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Hadley writes on a telescope which can be used to view moving objects and take observations of angles of moving objects, which in a normal telescope would make observations uncertain or impossible. Engraved figures from Philosophical Transactions are attached.

Subject: Optics / Scientific Instruments

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The description of a new instrument for taking angles'.

Read to the Royal Society on 13 May 1731.

Reference number: CLP/2/21
Earliest possible date: 1731
Physical description: Ink on paper
Page extent: 10 pages
Format: Manuscript

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John Hadley

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John Hadley, Paper, 'The description of a new instrument for taking angles' by John Hadley, 1731, CLP/2/21, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_2_21/paper-the-description-of-a-new-instrument-for-taking-angles-by-john-hadley, accessed on 13 January 2025

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I. The description of a new instrument for taking angles. By John Hadley, Esq; Vice-Pr. R. S. communicated to the Society on May 13. 1731. External link, opens in new tab.

Date: 31st December 1731

DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1731.0025

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Description of a new instrument for taking angles by John Hadley
Reference number: RBO/17/72

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Classified papers of the Royal Society
1660-1741 Reference number: CLP
Classified papers: volume 2 concerning 'Surveying, Opticks, Perspective, Sculpture, Painting, Music, Acoustics Mechanicks'
1656-1737 Reference number: CLP/2

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