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Analysis of Ayscough's Telescope Adapted to Use at Sea
Igor Nesterenko
An unambiguous accordance between an objective lens for Ayscough's telescope 'Adapted to Use at Sea' and another compound lens which was described by William Eastland in well-known…
John Dollond's Prismatic Experiments: The Beginning of a Long Way
Igor Nesterenko
The English optician John Dollond (1706-1761) performed a number of experiments with prisms of various transparent materials and concluded that an achromatic lens could exist. At t…
The Initial Approximations for Achromatic Doublets of the XVIII Century
Igor Nesterenko
Analysis of the both type (flint-forward and crown-forward) achromatic doublets was carried out. The investigation revealed possible initial approximations which could be used by o…
Remarks to the article: New Light on the Invention of the Achromatic Telescope Objective
Igor Nesterenko
The article analysis was carried out within the confines of the replication project of the telescope, which was used by Mikhail Lomonosov at observation the transit of Venus in 176…
Experimental Reconstruction of Lomonosov's Discovery of Venus's Atmosphere with Antique Refractors During the 2012 Transit of Venus
Alexandre Koukarine, Igor Nesterenko, Yuri Petrunin +1
In 1761, the Russian polymath Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov (1711-1765) discovered the atmosphere of Venus during its transit over the Sun's disc. In this paper we report on experi…