Paper, 'Further experiments on the light of the Cassegrainian telescope compared with that of the Gregorian' by Capt Henry Kater in a letter to the Rt Hon Sir Joseph Banks
Reference number: PT/8/14
Date: 1813-1814
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Includes original letter written by Kater in Ipswich on 16 July 1813. Appendix written by Kater in London on 20 April 1814.
Subject: Scientific Instruments / Optics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Further experiments on the light of the Cassegrainian telescope compared with that of the Gregorian. By Captain Henry Kater, Brigade Major. In a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. P. R. S'.
Original letter read 18 November 1813.
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 1, 1832.
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- 1813-1814
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Henry Kater, Paper, 'Further experiments on the light of the Cassegrainian telescope compared with that of the Gregorian' by Capt Henry Kater in a letter to the Rt Hon Sir Joseph Banks, 1813-1814, PT/8/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_8_14/paper-further-experiments-on-the-light-of-the-cassegrainian-telescope-compared-with-that-of-the-gregorian-by-capt-henry-kater-in-a-letter-to-the-rt-hon-sir-joseph-banks, accessed on 17 January 2025
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Date: 31st December 1814
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1814.0014
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1814
January 1813 - August 1814 Reference number: PT/8
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