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Letter, 'Of new glasses for microscopes made at Naples by de Torre' from Francis Haskins Eyles Stiles to Daniel Wray

Reference number: L&P/4/276

Date: 1765

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Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extracts of three letters of Sir F. H. Eyles Stiles, F. R. S. to Daniel Wray, Esq; F. R. S. concerning some new microscopes made at Naples, and their use in viewing the smallest objects'

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L&P/4/276
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1765
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Ink on paper
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8 pages
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Manuscript

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Francis Haskins Eyles-Stiles

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Francis Haskins Eyles-Stiles, Letter, 'Of new glasses for microscopes made at Naples by de Torre' from Francis Haskins Eyles Stiles to Daniel Wray, 1765, L&P/4/276, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_276/letter-of-new-glasses-for-microscopes-made-at-naples-by-de-torre-from-francis-haskins-eyles-stiles-to-daniel-wray, accessed on 12 December 2024

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