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RefNoCLP/2/37
LevelItem
TitlePaper, '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]
DescriptionCollinson 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?].
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordRBO/17/10
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8428Collinson; Peter (1694 - 1768)1694 - 1768
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