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Paper, 'Of the prismatic micrometer; with certificates by Alexander Aubert and Peter Dollond' by Nevil Maskelyne

Reference number: L&P/6/260

Date: 1777

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of a new instrument for measuring small angles, called the prismatic micrometer.'

Read 18 December 1777

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L&P/6/260
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1777
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Ink on paper
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17 pages
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Nevil Maskelyne

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Nevil Maskelyne, Paper, 'Of the prismatic micrometer; with certificates by Alexander Aubert and Peter Dollond' by Nevil Maskelyne, 1777, L&P/6/260, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_260/paper-of-the-prismatic-micrometer-with-certificates-by-alexander-aubert-and-peter-dollond-by-nevil-maskelyne, accessed on 12 November 2025

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