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Description

Contains one plate.

Subject: Engineering/Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Mr. James Short, F. R. S. to the President, with the description and uses of an equatorial telescope.'

Read 7 December 1749

Reference number
L&P/2/4
Earliest possible date
07 December 1749
Physical description
Ink on paper with plate
Page extent
7 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

James Short

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James Short, Paper, 'Of an equatorial telescope' by James Short, 07 December 1749, L&P/2/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_4/paper-of-an-equatorial-telescope-by-james-short, accessed on 05 November 2024

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