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'An account of a remarkable Seeming Alteration in the Size and Shape of objects at a distance occasion'd by the Exhalations from the Earth by Peter Collinson'

Reference number: RBO/17/10

Date: 1731

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Concerning the deception of sight from the refraction of air in the appearance of objects on the earth at a great distance - witnessed when travelling over Ottmoor Plain not far from Oxford on 15 June
Read to the Royal Society on 23 March 1731

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RBO/17/10
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1731
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2 pages
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'An account of a remarkable Seeming Alteration in the Size and Shape of objects at a distance occasion'd by the Exhalations from the Earth by Peter Collinson', 1731, RBO/17/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_17_10/an-account-of-a-remarkable-seeming-alteration-in-the-size-and-shape-of-objects-at-a-distance-occasiond-by-the-exhalations-from-the-earth-by-peter-collinson, accessed on 18 July 2025

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