| RefNo | CLP/2/37 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'An account of a remarkable seeming alteration in the size and shape of objects at a distance, from the exhalations from the Earth' by Peter Collinson |
| Date | [1732] |
| Description | Collinson writes of the deception of sight from the refraction of air in the appearance of objects on the earth seen from a great distance - witnessed when travelling over Ottmoor [Otmoor] Plain not far from Oxford [England] on 15 June 1731.
Subject: Optics
Read to the Royal Society on 23 March 1731 [1732?]. |
| Extent | 3p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedRecord | RBO/17/10 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8428 | Collinson; Peter (1694 - 1768) | 1694 - 1768 |