Paper, 'A general theory for the mensuration of the angle subtended by two objects' by George Atwood
Reference number: L&P/7/214
Date: 1781

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Subject: Mathematics
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A general theory for the mensuration of the angle subtended by two objects, of which one is observed by rays after two reflections from plane surfaces, and the other by rays coming directly to the spectator's eye'
Read 28 June 1781
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XXVII. A general theory for the mensuration of the angle subtended by two objects, of which one is observed by rays after two reflections from plane surfaces, and the other by rays coming directly to the spectator's eye External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1781
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1781.0051
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Decade 7 of scientific letters and papers submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1778-1782 Reference number: L&P/7
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