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'Of the Invention of Optick Glasses, Telescopes, Spectacles etc' by Benjamin La Motte

Reference number: RBO/13/19

Date: 1727

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Read to the Royal Society on 1 February 1727

Reference number
RBO/13/19
Earliest possible date
1727
Page extent
9 pages
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Manuscript

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'Of the Invention of Optick Glasses, Telescopes, Spectacles etc' by Benjamin La Motte, 1727, RBO/13/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_13_19/of-the-invention-of-optick-glasses-telescopes-spectacles-etc-by-benjamin-la-motte, accessed on 23 January 2025

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