Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920, Seabroke, G. M. (George Mitchell), 1848-1918 · London, Macmillan and co. · leaf 101
eople should not limitthe powers of the telescope to employing it to determine 78 STARGAZING : PAST AND PRESENT. [book II positions only. The number of telescopes was small, andtliey could not be better employed than in taking asurvey of all the marvellous things which they revealed.It was at this… … FiG. 40.—Sclleiners Telescope. ment, with its axis parallel to the earths axis, andallowed to turn so that Scheiner might follow the sunfor many hours a day, was one of the first. This instru-ment is here reproduced, because it was one of themost important telescopes of the time, and gathered into…
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