Chester Moore Hall

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Chester Moore Hall (1703–1771) was a British lawyer who produced the first achromatic lenses in 1729 or 1733 (accounts differ).

His name was also spelled Chester Moor Hall^[1][2] and Chester More Hall.^[3]

[edit] References

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, 4^th ed., Adam and Charles Black, 1902