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Paper, 'Improving the refracting telescope' by David Wark

Reference number: L&P/3/136

Date: 19 January 1756

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Subject: Engineering

Read 11 March 1756

Reference number
L&P/3/136
Earliest possible date
19 January 1756
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Improving the refracting telescope' by David Wark, 19 January 1756, L&P/3/136, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_136/paper-improving-the-refracting-telescope-by-david-wark, accessed on 15 January 2025

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