Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1901)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 376
4-FT. MELBOURNE REFLECTOR(Designed and built by Thomas Grubb) Telescopes and Houses for Them 323 cates in size of Herschels largest instruments, whichhe used on the island of Malta, 1852-65 ; ThomasGrubb, who in 1867 built a 4-foot Gregorian with asilver-on-glass speculum for the government… … THOMAS GRUBB (180O-1878) 20-inch reflector illustrated on page 292, with whichDr Roberts has produced photographs of unusual ex-cellence ; and Dr A. A. Common, of Ealing, England,whose first great reflector of 3-foot aperture is nowowned by the Lick Observatory, by gift of MrEdward Crossley, and…
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