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On Mr. Tulley’s thick aplanatic object-glasses, for diverging rays; with an account of a few microscopic test objects.

Publication Details

Quart. J. Sci., 22, 265-84. 1827 CE.

Goring was an Edinburgh medical practitioner. He commissioned Tulley and others to make various modifications to the microscope. The above paper reports the first effective achromatic object-glass.

Thematic Classifications

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Entry Number#266.1
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/8741
Author Bio LinkWorldcat.org/identities ↗
External URLon-mr-tulleys-thick-aplanatic-objectglasses-for-diverging-rays-with-an-account-of-a-few-microscopic-test-objects

Geographic Context

Mentioned in annotation: Edinburgh