Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15006

    Telescopic lens

    Date
    8 July 1672
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    After
    Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol5 p327
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 301mm
    width (page): 176mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    This diagram is part of Isaac Newton's proof that the aberration of rays from the transverse of the object-glass of his telescope would not be more than 1/50 of the glass's aperture. From Newton's letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 8 July 1672.

    This figure was copied from LBO/5/297.
    Related fellows
    Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
    Associated place
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