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Dollond, John

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Born Spitalsfield, (London), England, 10 June 1706

Died London, England, 30 November 1761

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Dollond, John. Courtesy of M. Eugene Rudd

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  • Kelly, John (1804). “The Life of John Dollond, F. R.S., Inventor of the Achromatic Telescope.” Philosophical Magazine18: 47–52.

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  • Rudd, M. Eugene, Duane H. Jaecks, Rolf Willach, Richard Sorrenson, and Peter Abrahams (2000). “New Light on an Old Question: Who Invented the Achromatic Telescope?” Journal of the Antique Telescope Society, no. 19: 3–12.

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  1. University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA

    M. Eugene Rudd

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  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey

  2. University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences, Irvine, CA, USA

    Virginia Trimble

  3. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

    Thomas R. Williams

  4. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA

    Katherine Bracher

  5. York Univesity, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Richard A. Jarrell

  6. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Jordan D. Marché II

  7. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    JoAnn Palmeri

  8. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Daniel W. E. Green

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Rudd, M.E. (2014). Dollond, John. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_369

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