Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920, Seabroke, G. M. (George Mitchell), 1848-1918 · London, Macmillan and co. · leaf 335
In Lord Rosses recent adaptation of this form theobserver is placed in a swinging basket, at the end of anarm almost as long as the telescope tube. He is herecounterpoised, and moves round a railway which sur-rounds the mounting at the height of the tip of thefork. The Composite Mounting. There is… … I „ I L Fir;. 143 -Oeneial wew ot tlie ildliourne Reflector. neither German nor English, but in part imitates bothof these methods : hence I give it the name of Composite.There is a short polar axis supported at both ends. CHAP. XX.] METflODS OF MOUNTING LARGE TELESCOPES. 313
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