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Description

Contains three plates.

Subject: Scientific instruments

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On an improved reflecting circle'

Read 4 June 1801

Reference number
L&P/11/163
Earliest possible date
1801
Physical description
Ink on paper and three plates
Page extent
13 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Joseph Mendoza y Rios

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Joseph Mendoza y Rios, Paper, 'On an improved reflecting circle' by Joseph de Mendoza y Rios, 1801, L&P/11/163, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_163/paper-on-an-improved-reflecting-circle-by-joseph-de-mendoza-y-rios, accessed on 20 April 2026

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