Note about reflecting telescope by Isaac Newton
Reference number: EL/N1/50

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'A new invention of Telescope which performs the effect of much longer ordinary ones by reflecting the object from a metallin concave to a metallin speculum, and from them through a smal microscopical plano-convex glas, to the Eye'
Translated into French mentioning that the first essay was on the length of the tube
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- EL/N1/50
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- 1 page
- Format
- Manuscript
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Isaac Newton, Note about reflecting telescope by Isaac Newton, EL/N1/50, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_n1_50/note-about-reflecting-telescope-by-isaac-newton, accessed on 09 February 2025
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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
1613-1740 Reference number: EL -
Letters from correspondents in natural philosophy to the Royal Society and its Fellows: 'Early Letters N1'
1663-1726 Reference number: EL/N1
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Isaac Newton
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Dates: 1613-1740
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