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Example sentences for "reflecting telescope"

  • This remark does not apply to a reflecting telescope, as this instrument conducts all the rays to a common focus.

  • In course of time an extraordinary ambition took possession of him: no less than the construction of a reflecting telescope of six inches diameter.

  • His perseverance was rewarded by the possession of a 3 1/2 inch speculum, which by his rare skill he worked into a reflecting telescope of very good quality.

  • I think it was about the year 1868 that I began to make a reflecting telescope.

  • If I were asked what course of practice was the best to instil a true taste for refined mechanical work, I should say, set to and make for yourself from first to last a reflecting telescope with a metallic speculum.

  • I suggested to him the employment of a reflecting telescope, by means of which the difficulties connected with the employment of glass could be avoided.

  • Three years later I initiated Mr. Maudslay into the art and mystery of making a reflecting telescope.

  • I now resolved to construct a reflecting telescope of considerably greater power than that which I possessed.

  • Cassegrainian telescope, a reflecting telescope invented by Cassegrain, which differs from the Gregorian only in having the secondary speculum convex instead of concave, and placed nearer the large speculum.

  • Reflecting telescope, below) is a Cassegrainian telescope.

  • Reflecting telescope, below) is a Cassegrainian telescope.

  • Hitherto we have said nothing about the great reflecting telescope, of 40 ft.

  • He then sought in London for a reflector of much larger dimensions; but no such instrument was on sale; and the terms demanded for the construction of a reflecting telescope of 5 or 6 ft.


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