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
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- L&P/9/2
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- 1786
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- 10 pages
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- Manuscript
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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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Date: 31st December 1786
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1786.0028
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Decade 9 of scientific letters and papers submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1786-1792 Reference number: L&P/9
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