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 393
rican telescope is compared with those of foreignmakers, in point of subsidiary apparatus for its con- 34<-> Stars and Telescopes venient working, we find a constantly growing dispo-sition on the part of the instrument builder to consultthe wants of the astronomer and to profit by his… … THE EQUATORIAL COUDE (DESIGNED BY LOEWY) ( The observer sits in a comfortable room, his telescope being mounted in tlte open air) itself is mounted in the open air, while the observer,as if working with a microscope, sits always in a fixedposition, no matter what the direction of the object hemay…
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