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HISTORY OF THE TELESCOPE
Main source: KING,H.C. (1955). The history of the Telescope.
Replicas of telescopes of Galileo and Toricelli (ca. 1610)
Scheiner's helioscope (the first equatorially mounted telescope) (ca. 1638)
Helvelius with a long refractor telescope (ca. 1647)
Helvelius with the 150-foot telescope at Danzig
Huygens' aerial telescope
The Royal Observatory in Flamsteed's time (ca. 1675)
Newton's reflecting telescope (ca. 1671)
Hadley's reflector (ca. 1738)
Romer's transit instrument (1684)
Romer's equatorial instrument (1690)
Herschel's 7-foot telescope (ca. 1776)
Herschel's 40-foot telescope (ca. 1788)
Gregorian telescope by Short (ca. 1769)
Ramsden's Palermo altitude and azimuth circle (1789)
Ramsden's Schuckbergh equatorial
The great Dorpat refractor (first german equatorial mount) (ca. 1820)
The Smyth equatorial refractor (ca 1844)
The Earl of Rosse's 6-foot reflector (Levithan or Parsonstown) (ca. 1845)
The second 3-foot Rosse telescope (ca. 1875)
Nasmyths's 20-inch Cassegrain-Newtonian (ca. 1845)
Paris observatory refractor (0.38 m focal length 9 m) (ca. 1845)
Paris observatory refractor (0.38 m focal length 9 m) (ca. 1845)
Lassel's 48-inch reflector at Malta (1861)
De la Rue's Kew photoheliograph (ca. 1852)
The 15-inch Harvard equatorial (ca. 1850)
The 25-inch Newall refractor (1869)
Foucaullt's 13-inch reflector (1857)
The 48-inch Grubb reflector in Melbourn (1867)
Mount of the Melbourne telescope
Tennant's 9-inch photographic reflector (1868)
Henry brother's photographic refractor, Paris observatory (ca. 1887)
Henry brother's photographic refractor, Paris observatory (ca. 1887)
Henry brother's photographic refractor, Paris observatory (ca. 1887)
Common's 5-foot reflector (1891)
William Huggins' 8-inch Clark-Cook equatorial (1860)
Pulkovo 30-inch refractor (1888)
The 36-inch Lick refractor (1895)
40-inch Yerkes refractor (ca. 1900)
Pier and mount of the 40-inch Yerkes refractor (1897)
40-inch Yerkes refractor (1921)
The 24-inch Ritchey reflector (1900)
80cm/50cm Postdam refractor (1900)
The Bruce telescope (Yerkes observatory) (ca. 1904)
The 60-inch reflector (Mount Wilson observatory) (ca. 1908)
The 100-inch Hooker reflector and dome (ca. 1918)
The 100-inch Hooker reflector and dome (ca. 1918)
Snow telescope and 60-inch refractor (Mount Wilson observatory) (ca. 1908)
The 150-inch tower Snow telescope (Mount Wilson observatory) (ca. 1914)
The 72-inch Victoria reflector (1918)
Palomar 200-inch reflector (1948)
Palomar 200-inch reflector
Palomar 200-inch reflector
Palomar 200-inch reflector
Palomar 200-inch reflector
Palomar 200-inch reflector
Palomar 200-inch reflector
Palomar 200-inch reflector
Palomar 200-inch reflector
Palomar 200-inch reflector
Palomar 200-inch reflector
Palomar 200-inch reflector
Palomar 200-inch reflector
Palomar 200-inch reflector
Palomar 200-inch reflector
Palomar 200-inch reflector
Palomar 200-inch reflector
Palomar 48-inch schmidt camera
Palomar 48-inch schmidt camera
HISTORY OF THE TELESCOPE © PEDRO RÉ
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