Astronomy: a large refracting telescope, at Birr Castle, Ireland. Lithograph by W. Bevan after Miss Henrietta M. Crompton, with figures by H. C. Herries.

  • Crompton, Henrietta M.
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[London]

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1 print : lithograph ; image 30.7 x 48 cm

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Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/82/87

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The great telescope, (of 52 feet focus, 6 feet clear opening of speculum) erected at Birr Castle in Ireland, by the Earl of Rosse, president of the Royal Society.

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