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Letter, 'On varied refrangibility and on telescopic object-glasses' from James Short and John Dollond

Reference number: L&P/2/330

Date: 09 April 1752

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Letter relating to a theorem of Mr. Euler, of the Royal Academy of sciences at Berlin, and F. R. S. for correcting the aberrations in the object-glasses of refracting telescopes'

Read 23 November 1752

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L&P/2/330
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09 April 1752
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7 pages
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Manuscript

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James Short

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James Short, Letter, 'On varied refrangibility and on telescopic object-glasses' from James Short and John Dollond, 09 April 1752, L&P/2/330, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_330/letter-on-varied-refrangibility-and-on-telescopic-object-glasses-from-james-short-and-john-dollond, accessed on 16 March 2026

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