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Letter, 'Of object-glassed for telescopes' from Leonhard Euler to James Short

Reference number: L&P/2/375

Date: 19 June 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 12 July 1753

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L&P/2/375
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19 June 1752
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Leonhard Euler

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Leonhard Euler, Letter, 'Of object-glassed for telescopes' from Leonhard Euler to James Short, 19 June 1752, L&P/2/375, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_375/letter-of-object-glassed-for-telescopes-from-leonhard-euler-to-james-short, accessed on 21 January 2025

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