Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14823

    Design of telescope

    Date
    7 March 1673
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p71
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 313mm
    width (page): 201mm
    Subject
    Physics
       > Optics
    Content object
    Description
    Diagram of telescope and sight in a letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins dated 7 March 1673, to be sent on to James Gregorie.

    A represents the great concave,
    E the Eye-glass,
    BCD a prism of glass or crystal whose sides BC & BD are not flat, but spherically convex.

    This diagram is copied at LBC/6/080.
    Related fellows
    James Gregorie (1638 - 1675, Scottish) , Mathematician
    John Collins (1936, American) , Mathematician
    Associated place
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