Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick), 1869- · New York, London, D. Appleton and company · leaf 158
ld by hiswonderful discoveries of the moons of Jupiter, the rings ofSaturn, the phases of Venus, the spots on the Sun and a hun-dred other wonders of the sky. A telescope is an arrangement of lenses in a tube for mak-ing the image of a distant object larger on the retina of the 136 THE SPYGLASS OR… … IlifiVliji Fig. 148.—Lipperheys Boy Discovers the Telescope. ] see, so that telescope means just what we should expect it tomean and that is to see afar. There are several kinds of telescopes, but there are onlytwo kinds I want to make clear to you here; in the firstkind the eye sees the object…
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