What was to be done with horsemen in an attack upon stone walls did not appear, but the telescope revealed much more ominous preparations.
You can imagine what sort of time a woman must have with a man whose nose is always at a telescopesnuffing stars.
Walter, apostrophizing an old gentleman with a powdered head (inaudibly to him of course), who was staring at a ship's telescope with all his might and main.
A crazy weathercock of a midshipman, with a telescope at his eye, once visible from the street, but long bricked out, creaked and complained upon his rusty pivot as the shrill blast spun him round and round, and sported with him cruelly.
Kepler, in 1611, made the first astronomical telescope with two concave glasses.
Galileo was the first to apply the telescope to astronomical observations.
So after riding a few miles I dismounted, slung the telescope over my back and buttoned the Skeleton Sermons to my chest.
A telescope and a rather fat book are awkward things on a bicycle, and they bumped me rather heavily, one on each side, as I started.
Tressidar had his telescope levelled on the merchantman.
Tressidar was still searching the horizon with his telescope when one of the seamen raised a warning shout: "Zepp.
To these last Monsieur turned his attention, and having unstrapped his telescope took up a commanding position on a rising mound in the garden, and proceeded to sweep the horizon.
There was also a certain wrinkled, old Cap'en Jemmy, who walked up and down the parade with a telescope under his arm and said, "A boat yer honour!
The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescopeor other optical instrument; as, a telescope of fourÐinch aperture.
Adroit in the application of the telescope and quadrant.
To bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an instrument; to regulate for use; as, to adjust a telescope or microscope.
If we hear them or read them, it is as if we exchanged a bad telescope for a good one.
For practical life genius is about as useful as an astral telescope in a theatre.
In respect of this quality our intellect may be compared to a telescope with a very narrow field of vision; just because our consciousness is not stationary but fleeting.
And now the overtaking vessel had risen to her hull, and in the telescope which I pointed at her was proving herself a large ship, with a black and white band and a red gleam of copper under the checkered side as she leaned from the breeze.
The captain picked up a telescope that lay upon the skylight, and crossing the deck took a view of the approaching ship; then approached me.
On the quarterdeck of one of the Battleships the Midshipman of the Afternoon Watch rubbed the lense of his telescope with his jacket cuff, adjusted the focus against a stanchion, and prepared to make the most of this heaven-sent diversion.
After a while, too, he began to find the glare tell, and to ease the aching of his eyes, had sometimes to shift the telescope from one eye to the other in the middle of a signal.
He took the telescope and steadied it against a pillar.
Even in a telescope of 4 inches aperture, this would be a fairly bright object.
It is a curious fact that the performance of a really good refracting telescope actually exceeds what theory would indicate!
With the 18-inch equatorial telescopeof the Strasburgh Observatory, M.
I well remember this observation, it was the result of repeated comparisons between the object seen in the telescope and the actual nubecula as seen high in the sky on the meridian, and no vague estimate carelessly set down.
On a photographic plate of the Pleiades taken with the Bruce telescopeand an exposure of 6 hours, Prof.
Some other companions have been suspected by amateur observers, but Burnham finds that "there is nothing nearer" than the known companion within the reach of the great 36-inch telescope of the Lick Observatory (Cat.
From observations with the great 40-inch telescope of the Yerkes Observatory (U.
Burnham, and the 6-inch telescope with which he made many of his remarkable discoveries of double stars.
With the aid of your telescope I can look right into her window--see?
I have been turning it right along, but the telescope won't move.
How does a telescopeshow you the moon, stars, and planets?
The great telescope of the Yerkes Observatory at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
The bird hovered so near a house, and remained so long in one place, that the artist fixed a telescope and secured an exact sketch of the bird in the peculiar attitude which it is so fond of assuming.
The captain had risen earlier than usual, and set out down the beach, his cutlass swinging under the broad skirts of the old blue coat, his brass telescope under his arm, his hat tilted back upon his head.
Only the telescope and its case was gone but the change of clothing and the maps were still inside.
Through the telescope Boyce peered at the other side of the canyon at a scant few dogs that paraded back and forth, and then throwing themselves off of the cliff to join their dead comrades below.
He handed the telescopeto Boyce and told him to look at the river near the huge rock and tree, an he did.
He wiped the tears from his eyes and took the telescope that was beside Lloyd and put it up to his eye.
I bet W R has a telescope or a periscope or a spectroscope somehow trained on us right now and will see to it the rescue party arrives ten minutes after all life is extinct.
First observation through telescope and by airplanes keeping a necessarily cautious distance, showed the bomb had destroyed a patch of vegetation about as large as had been expected.
A telescope to the eye and constant radioreports from shuttling planes told of the approaching grass, but under the circumstances weariness rather than excitement or anxiety was the prevailing emotion.
I shuddered and peered down the reversedtelescope where the ladder once more hung temptingly before Slafe.
In great confusion she then unrolled a paper which discovered a telescope apparently like her sister's; but on applying it to her eye, she found it did not contain a single lens--so that it was no better than a roll of pasteboard.
This made him determine that always in future he would bring with him to his lookout-place the telescope which he had saved from the wreck.
Rick slipped the telescope out of its mount and handed it to Scotty.
On the bench was a camera with an odd-looking searchlight and telescope attached.
He intended to put the lenses in ordinary sunglasses frames, restore the regular view finder to the camera, and turn the telescope over to Scotty.
The searchlight gave off invisible infrared rays instead of ordinary light, and the telescope was equipped with special lenses in order to pick up the infrared.
Scotty already had a telescopic sight on his rifle, and the telescope from the infrared unit could be put in its place with a simple turn of a screw.
The range-finder for the giant projector was here; its little telescope with the trajectory apparatus and the firing switch were unmistakable.
He cut down his lights; the telescope intensifiers were permanently disconnected; the ventilators were momentarily stilled, so that the air here in the little room crowded with men rapidly grew fetid.
It must be fairly close; for Grantline's telescope had revealed its identity as a bandit flyer, unmarked by any of the standard code-identification lights.
Some there were who, having been shown them, refused to believe their eyes, and asserted that although the telescope acted well enough for terrestrial objects, it was altogether false and illusory when applied to the heavens.
And now Galileo with his telescope verifies the prediction to the letter.
Grinding the lenses with his own hands with consummate skill, he succeeded in making a telescopemagnifying thirty times.
We left Galileo standing at his telescope and beginning his survey of the heavens.
Galileo with his telescope revealed facts which proved the theories of Copernicus, and made impossible the ancient idea that our earth was the centre of the universe.
