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Boscovich, Ruggero Giuseppe

Memorie sulli cannocchiali diottrici

Giuseppe Marelli, 1771

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Year of publication
1771
Place of printing
Milano
Author
Boscovich, Ruggero Giuseppe
Publishers
Giuseppe Marelli
Edition
Originale
Binding description
M. pelle coeva
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Good
Languages
Italian
First edition
Yes

Description

Boscovich, Ruggero Giuseppe. Milano, Giuseppe Marelli, 1771. Memorie sulli cannocchiali diottrici. In-8°, m. pelle coeva. (8), 9-114, (2 PP. - errata), con una tavola incisa in rame ripiegata f.t. Esemplare ben conservato della rara edizione originale ed unica. Riccardi, I, 182. << John Dollond was apparently the first to try to correct secondary spectrum by the introduction of a third lens in his object-glasses, but he did not publish his result. R. J. Boscovich, a Jesuit professor at the University of Padua, entertained simila ideas and devised an instrument which he called the vitrometrum for investigating residual dispersion. >> (King, History of the telescope, p. 158).