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 383
fortheir objectives from• foreign makers, ami must still do so, the few experiments in optical glassmaking outside of Europe having proved in the mainfailures. But in that fine and skilful fashioning of thecrude lump into a perfect lens, our countrymen havefor the last half century led the world.… … ORMSIiY MACKNIGHT MITCHEL(1809-1862) Telescopes and Houses for Them 331 objectives, undertook telescopes also and completeda 13^-inch glass which the late Dr Peters of HamiltonCollege (page 113) made famous by his discovery of48 small planets; also Clacey of Boston and Byrneof New York deserve more…
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