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  <dc:title>Paper, 'Concerning the invention of telescopes' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Desaguliers provides information on the invention of the telescope based on his studies of the writings of [Benedictus] Arias Montanus, who writes of the use of telescopes in 1573. He also discusses various theories surrounding who truly invented the first telescope.

Subject: Scientific Instruments / Optics

Read to the Royal Society on 27 October 1726.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[1726]</dc:date>
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