Paper, 'On the aberrations of compound lenses and object-glasses' by J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel
Reference number: PT/15/17
Date: 19 February 1821
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38 manuscript pages and one plate showing combinations of lenses and methods for calculating focal distances.
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the aberrations of compound lenses and object-glasses'.
Written by Herschel in Slough. Read 22 March 1821.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.
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- PT/15/17
- Earliest possible date
- 19 February 1821
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- Ink on paper
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- 39 pages
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