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  • Reflecting telescopes pre.1835
  • Reflecting telescopes pre.1835
  • Astronomy: several telescopes and tripods. Engraving.
  • Optics: the principle of multi-lens telescopes. Engraving.
  • A collection of telescopes and other optical instruments. Engraving.
  • Three men looking through telescopes at young women bathing in the sea. Wood engraving.
  • Astronomy: a number of ladies and gentlemen using telescopes and celestial globes, in a landscape of ruined classical architecture. Engraving, [c.1720?].
  • Men and women with telescopes, gyroscopes, a balloon, battle ships, and other forms of technology; representing the benefits of philosophy and science. Engraving by E. Voysard after C.L. Desrais.
  • The British military expedition against the Bruges-Ostend canal, 1798: Joseph Jekyll M.P provides two different reports on it by telegraph, using rolled-up newspapers as telescopes. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1798.
  • Astronomy: a large refracting telescope. Engraving.
  • Astronomy: a large refracting telescope. Engraving.
  • Astronomy: a large refracting telescope. Engraving.
  • The great equatorial telescope for Melbourned.
  • Astronomy: a large observatory telescope at Hartwell House, with an astronomer using a transit telescope. Engraving by James Basire.
  • Astronomy: a large portable refracting telescope. Engraving.
  • Preparation for the shell or telescope crown
  • The great equatorial telescope in the Dome at Greenwich.
  • Astronomy: a large telescope, at Greenwich Observatory. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Astronomy: a large refracting telescope, at Birr Castle, Ireland. Engraving.
  • Astronomy: the Craig telescope on Wandsworth Common. Wood engraving, 1852.
  • Astronomy: the Craig telescope on Wandsworth Common. Wood engraving, 1852.
  • The great refracting telescope constructed at Dublin for the Vienna Observatory.
  • Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) holding a telescope. Oil painting after Justus Sustermans.
  • Astronomy: the Great Melbourne Telescope, in use outdoors. Colour lithograph after H. Grubb.
  • Astronomy: a large refracting telescope, in a specially constructed observatory. Wood engraving, 1881.
  • Astronomy: a large reflecting telescope, and projection of the transit of Venus. Engraving.
  • Astronomy: a large telescope with a protractor pivot, on a tripod base. Engraving.
  • Astronomy: a large refracting telescope, in use outdoors. Lithograph by W. Eldridge, 183-.
  • Astronomy: a large refracting telescope, in use outdoors. Lithograph by W. Eldridge, 183-.
  • Astronomy: Galileo with his telescope in the Piazza San Marco, Venice. Wood engraving.