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Excerpt from The Life of John Dollond, F. R. S., Inventor of the Achromatic Telescope: With a Copious Appendix of All the Papers Referred To
Mr. Dollond's celebrity in Optics became now universal; and the friendship and protection of the most eminent men of science ?attered and encouraged his pursuits. To enumerate the persons, both at home and abroad, who distinguished him by their correspondence or cultivated his acquaintance, however honourable to his: memory.
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