Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the construction and use of single achromatic eye-pieces, and their superiority to the double eye-piece of Huyghens' by Joseph Bancroft Reade
Reference number: RR/1/191
Date: 25 February 1840
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Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, as it is a paper of 'vague discussion, without anything very new in principle'.
Subject: Optometry
[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1837-1843].
- Reference number
- RR/1/191
- Earliest possible date
- 25 February 1840
- Physical description
- Letter on paper
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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George Biddell Airy, Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the construction and use of single achromatic eye-pieces, and their superiority to the double eye-piece of Huyghens' by Joseph Bancroft Reade, 25 February 1840, RR/1/191, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_1_191/referees-report-by-george-biddell-airy-on-a-paper-on-the-construction-and-use-of-single-achromatic-eye-pieces-and-their-superiority-to-the-double-eye-piece-of-huyghens-by-joseph-bancroft-reade, accessed on 06 June 2026
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On the construction and use of single achromatic eye-pieces, and their superiority to the double eye-piece of Huyghens External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1843
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0089
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Referees' reports: volume 1, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
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