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Referee's report by William Benjamin Carpenter, on a paper 'On a searcher for aplanatic images applied to microscopes, and its effects in increasing power and improving definition' by George Royston Pigott

Reference number: RR/7/63

Date: 05 August 1870

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The mathematical part of the paper is 'satisfactory'.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1870].

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RR/7/63
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05 August 1870
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Letter on paper
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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William Benjamin Carpenter

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William Benjamin Carpenter, Referee's report by William Benjamin Carpenter, on a paper 'On a searcher for aplanatic images applied to microscopes, and its effects in increasing power and improving definition' by George Royston Pigott, 05 August 1870, RR/7/63, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_63/referees-report-by-william-benjamin-carpenter-on-a-paper-on-a-searcher-for-aplanatic-images-applied-to-microscopes-and-its-effects-in-increasing-power-and-improving-definition-by-george-royston-pigott, accessed on 17 July 2025

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