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M0009425: Temporary mounting of an achromatic refracting telescope
Date: 18 March 1946- Digital Images
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The great refracting telescope constructed at Dublin for the Vienna Observatory.
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An essay on the genuine construction of a standard microscope and telescope: With the application of a prismatic or catadioptric eye-piece to refracting and reflecting telescopes, by which their lengths are much contracted, their fields of view encreased, and their uses greatly facilitated; particularly in the reflector of Cassegrain's form for celestial observations. By B. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Archives and manuscripts
M0009426: The great equatorial telescope in the Dome at the Greenwich Observatory
Date: 18 March 1946- Archives and manuscripts
M0009419: Great telescope erected at Birr Castle, Ireland, by the Earl of Rosse
Date: 18 March 1946- Books
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The telescope and microscope / by Thomas Dick.
Dick, Thomas, 1774-1857.Date: [1851?]- Books
The unsung journalist and the origin of the telescope / Stillman Drake.
Drake, Stillman.Date: 1976- Books
Eyes on the universe : a history of the telescope / Isaac Asimov.
Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992.Date: 1975- Pictures
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Astronomy: a large telescope with a protractor pivot, on a tripod base. Engraving.
Reference: 46645i- Books
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Directions for making the best composition for the metals of reflecting telescopes. Together with a description of the process for grinding, polishing, and giving the great speculum the true parabolic curve. By Mr. John Mudge. Read at the Royal Society, Feb 27. March 6. an 13. 1777.
Mudge, John, 1721-1793.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
The invention of the telescope / Albert Van Helden.
Van Helden, Albert.Date: 1977- Books
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Directions for making the best composition for the metals of reflecting telescopes: and the method of casting, grinding, polishing, and giving them the true parabolic figure / [John Edwards].
Edwards, John, Rev., B.A.Date: [1787]- Books
The history of the telescope / by Henry C. King ; with a foreword by Sir Harold Spencer Jones.
King, Henry C. (Henry Charles)Date: 1979, ©1955- Books
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Description of a forty-feet reflecting telescope. By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. From The philosophical transactions.
Herschel, William, Sir, 1738-1822.Date: 1795]- Pictures
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Astronomy: the Great Melbourne Telescope, in use outdoors. Colour lithograph after H. Grubb.
Grubb, Howard, Sir, 1844-1931.Reference: 46256i- Pictures
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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.
Desrais, Claude Louis, 1746-1816.Reference: 36296i- Pictures
An admiral stands proudly wearing his uniform with a telescope under his arm on the deck of a ship? Lithograph, ca. 1946.
Date: (1946)Reference: 590686i- Pictures
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Astronomy: a large telescope, at Greenwich Observatory. Coloured wood engraving.
Reference: 46255i- Pictures
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Astronomy: a large observatory telescope at Hartwell House, with an astronomer using a transit telescope. Engraving by James Basire.
Date: 1851Reference: 46233i- Pictures
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A man is looking out of the window through a telescope as young children play on a rocking horse. Etching.
Reference: 36107i- Books
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Proposals for making a large reflecting telescope, by Francis Hauksbee.
Hauksbee, Francis, 1687-1763.Date: 1715?]- Pictures
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Astronomy: a large refracting telescope, in a specially constructed observatory. Wood engraving, 1881.
Date: 1881Reference: 46261i- Books
A history of the development of the telescope from about 1675 to 1830 based on documents in the Court Collection / [by T.H. Court, M. von Rohr].
Court, Thomas H.Date: 1929- Books
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The newtonian system of philosophy; explained by familiar objects, In AN Entertaining Manner, for the use of young ladies and gentlemen, by Tom Telescope, A. M. Illustrated with Copperplates and Cuts.
Telescope, Tom.Date: [1798]- Books
The illustrated account given by Hevelius in his "Machina celestis" of the method of mounting his telescopes and erecting an observatory : reprinted from an original copy / with remarks by C. Leeson Prince.
Hevelius, Johannes, 1611-1687.Date: 1882