1. Reflecting Telescope — 2021-08-14 20:51:21

   …00" }} Newton's solution was to replace the lenses with mirrors. == Modern Reflector == {{Image url="ModernReflectorTelescope.jpg" class="right" title="Modern Reflector Telescope" width="250" }} The reflector telescope is still very popular and …
   …has changed very little in {{datediff from="1668" }} years. ::c:: == Leviathan of Parsonstown == {{Image url="RosseTelescope.jpg" class="right" title="Rosse Telescope" width="" }} The Newtonian principle was taken to extreme proportions in 1845…
   … with the construction of the **Leviathan of Parsonstown** otherwise known as the **Rosse six-foot telescope**. This was a huge reflecting telescope of **72 inches.** Up to this point the biggest reflectors were only 30 inches. …
   …n County Offaly, Ireland. With a 72-inch metal mirror weighing 4 tons and a tube 54 feet long, it remained the largest telescope in the world until 1917, {{datediff from="1845" to="1917"}} years. {{tag ids="Gravity Galileo"}}…

2. Gravity — 2020-08-06 08:19:13

   …he planets revolve around the sun, not the earth as people thought at the time. This led Newton to improve [[Reflecting_Telescope| Telescopes]]. But no one had been able to explain why the planets stayed in their orbits. == Enter the Apple == Acc…

3. Potato Crisp — 2020-08-06 08:17:45

   …Street, Camden [[London]] [[England]]. He was a man of eclectic interests, music, optics and spectacles and improving **telescopes**. He wrote books on all his interests in plain enthusiastic English. But it was in cooking he made his name giving h…

4. Theodolite — 2017-07-05 08:57:22

   …ention. As well as being a cartographer his father was an inventor. Digges also independently invented the reflecting telescope, or the refracting telescope as part of his theodolite to improve the accuracy over long distances of his surveying wor…

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