Chester Moore Hall

Chester Moore Hall

Chester Moore Hall (né le 9 décembre 1703, Leigh, Essex, Angleterre, † 17 mars 1771 Sutton, Surrey) était un juriste britannique qui a inventé les premières lentilles achromatiques en 1729 ou 1733. Il a utilisé ces lentilles achromatiques pour fabriquer la première lunette astronomique sans aberrations chromatiques (distorsion des couleurs).

Il a vécu à New Hall, Sutton, Essex.

Son nom a été également orthographié Chester Moor Hall[1],[2] et Chester More Hall[3].

Références

  1. Sphaera - Peter Dollond answers Jesse Ramsden - A review of the events of the invention of the achromatic doublet with emphasis on the roles of Hall, Bass, John Dollond and others.
  2. Daumas, Maurice, Scientific Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and Their Makers, Portman Books, London 1989 ISBN 978-0713407273
  3. Agnes M. Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century, 4th ed., Adam and Charles Black, 1902

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