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Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/74/7/9.

Subject: Scientific Instruments / Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of experiments on the reflecting telescope'.

Received by the Royal Society on 9 May 1840. Read 18 June 1840.

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 4, 1843.

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PT/24/3
Earliest possible date
1840
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Ink on paper
Page extent
52 pages
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Manuscript

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William Parsons

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William Parsons, Paper, 'An account of experiments on the reflecting telescope' by the Right Hon Lord Oxmantown [William Parsons], 1840, PT/24/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_24_3/paper-an-account-of-experiments-on-the-reflecting-telescope-by-the-right-hon-lord-oxmantown-william-parsons, accessed on 04 December 2024

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