Chester Moor Hall
Chester Moor Hall , also Chester Moore Hall, Chester More Hall, (born December 9, 1703 in Leigh , Essex , † March 17, 1771 in Sutton , Surrey ) was an English lawyer and mathematician .
He made calculations to avoid chromatic aberration and invented the achromatic lens around 1733 . He also built an achromatic telescope. The first publications about it came from John Dollond , who also received the patent for it.
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- Chester Moor Hall . In Encyclopædia Britannica ; online .
- Anita McConnell: Hall, Chester Moor. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
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| SURNAME | Hall, Chester Moor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hall, Chester Moore; Hall, Chester More |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British lawyer and mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1703 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leigh , Essex |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1771 |
| Place of death | Sutton , Surrey |