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'A Description of an Instrument to observe the celestial motion etc by reflexion thro' a Telescope without elevating the Telescope towards the object' by Edmond Halley

Reference number: RBO/9/17

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Read to the Royal Society on 23 March 1691

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RBO/9/17
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2 pages
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'A Description of an Instrument to observe the celestial motion etc by reflexion thro' a Telescope without elevating the Telescope towards the object' by Edmond Halley, RBO/9/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_9_17/a-description-of-an-instrument-to-observe-the-celestial-motion-etc-by-reflexion-thro-a-telescope-without-elevating-the-telescope-towards-the-object-by-edmond-halley, accessed on 15 March 2026

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