Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15847

    Telescope lenses

    Date
    9 April 1672
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p1
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 260mm
    width (page): 178mm
    Subject
    Physics
       > Optics
    Content object
    Description
    Letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins, dated at Cambridge, 9 April 1672, in which he explains his reflecting telescope, in response to
    James Gregorie's reservations.
    Related fellows
    John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
    Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
    James Gregorie (1638 - 1675, Scottish) , Mathematician
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
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