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A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century

Note 313 — Chapter VI

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It is remarkable that, as early as 1695, the possibility of an achromatic combination was inferred by David Gregory from the structure of the human eye. See his Catoptricæ et Dioptricæ Sphericæ Elementa, p. 98.

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