Describes JL's self education in grinding compound lenses and devising trials for testing these for spectacles.
Letter details
Record number
Herschel13560
From
Joseph Jackson Lister
To
Sir John Herschel
Date
[24 February 1831]
Sent from
n.p.
Source of text
DNB 11: 1228
Physical description
L
Additional information
Record created for the Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (CUP: Cambridge), 1998 by
Michael J. Crowe ed., David R. Dyck and James J. Kevin assoc. eds
Digital record created by
Dr Marvin Bolt and Steven Lucy at the Webster Institute of the Adler Planetarium
Converted to TEI by
Michael Hawkins, Epsilon Project, Cambridge University Library