Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15022

    Design of a telescope

    Date
    7 March 1673
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol6 p81
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 304mm
    width (page): 177mm
    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.

    This diagram is copied from LBO/6/072.
    Related fellows
    Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
    David Gregory (1659 - 1708, British) , Astronomer, Astronomer
    John Collins (1936, American) , Mathematician
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