Paper, 'Of a new system of wires in the focus of a telescope' by Francis Wollaston
Reference number: L&P/8/144
Date: 15 March 1785
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Subject: Astronomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A description of a new system of wires in the focus of a telescope, for observing the comparative right ascensions and declinations of cœlestial objects; together with a method of investigating the same when observed by the rhombus, though it happen not to be truly in an equatorial position'
Read 7 April 1785
- Reference number
- L&P/8/144
- Earliest possible date
- 15 March 1785
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- Ink on paper and plate
- Page extent
- 10 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Francis Wollaston, Paper, 'Of a new system of wires in the focus of a telescope' by Francis Wollaston, 15 March 1785, L&P/8/144, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_144/paper-of-a-new-system-of-wires-in-the-focus-of-a-telescope-by-francis-wollaston, accessed on 13 June 2026
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XVIII. A description of a new system of wires in the focus of a telescope, for observing the comparative right ascensions and declinations of cœlestial objects; together with a method of investigating the same when observed by the rhombus, though it happen not to be truly in an equatorial position External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1785
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1785.0018
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Decade 8 of scientific letters and papers submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1782-1786 Reference number: L&P/8
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