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Example sentences for "foot telescope"

  • He erected in his garden a stand for his twenty-foot telescope, and perfected his mirrors.

  • He moved to Datchet in 1782, and set up his twenty-foot telescope.

  • In 1784 he made a fourth review with his twenty-foot telescope.

  • In 1785, Herschel began to construct his great forty-foot telescope, and the next year removed to Slough, not far from Windsor.

  • My brother now applied himself to perfect his mirrors, erecting in his garden a stand for his twenty-foot telescope; many trials were necessary before the required motions for such an unwieldy machine could be contrived.

  • The grass-plat near it was soon utilized to hold the stand of a twenty-foot telescope, which he had even then projected.

  • Royal and other distinguished visitors constantly visited the wonderful forty-foot telescope at Slough, and either William Herschel or his sister were required to be in attendance to explain its marvels.

  • EVERY one knows the fame of Sir William Herschel, the first distinguished astronomer of that name, the builder and designer of the forty-foot telescope, and the discoverer of the planet, called after George III.

  • The apparatus for erecting the great forty-foot telescope, and the iron and woodwork for its various motions, were all designed by William Herschel, and fixed under his immediate direction.

  • A, A one-foot telescope with a three-inch eye-piece.

  • B, A two-foot telescope with a three-inch eye-piece.

  • Persons in general, I may even say the greater part of astronomers, know not what was the effect that the great forty-foot telescope had in the labours and discoveries of Herschel.

  • Smillie, having general direction of the photographic work, made exposures at the 135-foot telescope; F.

  • The greatest interest centers in the direct coronal negatives taken with the 135-foot telescope.

  • The day-time he devoted to making his long-contemplated 20-foot telescope.


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