Paper, 'An account of experiments on the reflecting telescope' by the Right Hon Lord Oxmantown [William Parsons]
Reference number: PT/24/3
Date: 1840
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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
- Format
- Manuscript
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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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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1840
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