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Paper, 'Description of a forty feet reflecting telescope' by William Herschel

Reference number: L&P/10/123

Date: 18 May 1795

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Contains 19 plates.

Subject: Scientific instruments/astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as, 'Description of a forty-feet reflecting telescope'

Read 11 June 1795

Reference number
L&P/10/123
Earliest possible date
18 May 1795
Physical description
Ink on paper and nineteen plates
Page extent
90 pages
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Manuscript

Creator name

William Herschel

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William Herschel, Paper, 'Description of a forty feet reflecting telescope' by William Herschel, 18 May 1795, L&P/10/123, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_123/paper-description-of-a-forty-feet-reflecting-telescope-by-william-herschel, accessed on 13 September 2024

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