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Paper, 'Description of a new kind of eye-glasses for such telescopes as may be applied to mathematical instruments' by Jesse Ramsden

Reference number: L&P/8/6

Date: 1782

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Subject: Scientific instruments

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A description of a new construction of eye-glasses for such telescopes as may be applied to mathematical instruments'

Read 19 December 1782

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L&P/8/6
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1782
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10 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Description of a new kind of eye-glasses for such telescopes as may be applied to mathematical instruments' by Jesse Ramsden, 1782, L&P/8/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_6/paper-description-of-a-new-kind-of-eye-glasses-for-such-telescopes-as-may-be-applied-to-mathematical-instruments-by-jesse-ramsden, accessed on 09 June 2026

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