Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14824

    Design of a telescope

    Date
    7 March 1673
    Creator
    Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes (1867, American) , Natural philosopher
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p72
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 313mm
    width (page): 200mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Diagram showing the optical properties of Isaac Newton's telescope. From a copy of Newton's letter to John Collins dated 9 April 1673, in which Newton explains how his telescope is different from that designed by James Gregorie.

    A copy of this image can be found at LBC/6/081.
    Related fellows
    James Gregorie (1638 - 1675, Scottish) , Mathematician
    John Collins (1936, American) , Mathematician
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