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Description

Contains plate

Subject: Astronomy/Scientific instruments

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Description of a lamp-micrometer, and the method of using it.'

Read 31 January 1782

Reference number
L&P/7/236
Earliest possible date
28 January 1782
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
14 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

William Herschel

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William Herschel, Paper, 'Description of the lamp-micrometer' by William Herschel, 28 January 1782, L&P/7/236, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_236/paper-description-of-the-lamp-micrometer-by-william-herschel, accessed on 21 April 2026

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