| RefNo | PT/15/17 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Paper, 'On the aberrations of compound lenses and object-glasses' by J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel |
| Date | 19 February 1821 |
| Description | 38 manuscript pages and one plate showing combinations of lenses and methods for calculating focal distances.
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the aberrations of compound lenses and object-glasses'.
Written by Herschel in Slough. Read 22 March 1821.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833. |
| Extent | 39p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0152 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1821.0018 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/15/17/1 |
| PT/15/17/2 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); mathematician and astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |