Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15844

    Telescope with two eye-glasses

    Date
    10 December 1672
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p1
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 316mm
    width (page): 192mm
    Subject
    Physics
       > Optics
    Content object
    Description
    Diagram in a letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins dated 10 December 1672, discussing possible improvements to a telescope using two eye-glasses.
    Related fellows
    John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
    Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
    Associated place
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          > United Kingdom
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