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Paper, 'Investigation of the cause of that indistinctness of vision which has been ascribed to the smallness of the optic pencil' by William Herschel

Reference number: L&P/9/2

Date: 1786

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Investigation of the cause of the indistinctness of vision which has been ascribed to the smallness of the optic pencil'

Read 22 June 1786

Reference number
L&P/9/2
Earliest possible date
1786
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Ink on paper
Page extent
10 pages
Format
Manuscript

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William Herschel

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William Herschel, Paper, 'Investigation of the cause of that indistinctness of vision which has been ascribed to the smallness of the optic pencil' by William Herschel, 1786, L&P/9/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_2/paper-investigation-of-the-cause-of-that-indistinctness-of-vision-which-has-been-ascribed-to-the-smallness-of-the-optic-pencil-by-william-herschel, accessed on 14 January 2025

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