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3. On Aplanatic Telescopes, a posthumous paper by the late Archibald Blair, Esq

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2015

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In this paper a new fluid composition is proposed for correcting chromatic aberration, free from the corrosive properties of those used by the author's father Dr Blair, the inventor of the fluid object-glass. The composition proposed is:—

The secondary spectrum formed by the nitrate, combined with crown-glass, is similar to that when flint and crown glass are combined. The combination of crown-glass with the muriate is the opposite. Hence, by properly combining these, Mr Blair states that the secondary spectrum may be wholly destroyed.

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Proceedings 1836–37
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 1 , 1845 , pp. 158
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1844

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