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Paper, 'Apparatus applied to quatorial instruments for correcting errors from refraction in altitude' by Peter Dollond

Reference number: L&P/7/95

Date: 1779

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Contains one plate.

Subject: Phsyics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of an apparatus applied to the equatorial instrument for correcting the errors arising from the refraction in altitude'

Read 11 March 1779

Reference number
L&P/7/95
Earliest possible date
1779
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
7 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Apparatus applied to quatorial instruments for correcting errors from refraction in altitude' by Peter Dollond, 1779, L&P/7/95, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_95/paper-apparatus-applied-to-quatorial-instruments-for-correcting-errors-from-refraction-in-altitude-by-peter-dollond, accessed on 14 July 2025

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