Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy, founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1899)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911. Celestial motions · Boston, Little, Brown and company · leaf 397
, the gift of Mr Chas. T. Yerkes) Clarks the signal honor of the golden medal of theEmpire, conferred for the first time by Alexanderthe Third. Second in importance only to the objective of atelescope are the mounting by which it is pointed to-ward the heavenly bodies, and the eyepieces withwhich… … 40-INCH TELESCOPE OF THE YERKES OBSERVATORY *(Glass by Mantois, objective by Alvan Clark &> Sons, of Cambridgefiort, mounting byWarner & Swasev of Cleveland. The tube is about 65 feet long ; and, although the -mov-ing parts of this great telescope weigh nearly 15 tons, the whole is…
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