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Louis Bell. The Telescope
The Telescope
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. THE EVOLUTION OF THE TELESCOPE
CHAPTER II. THE MODERN TELESCOPE
CHAPTER III. OPTICAL GLASS AND ITS WORKING
CHAPTER IV. THE PROPERTIES OF OBJECTIVES AND MIRRORS
CHAPTER V. MOUNTINGS
CHAPTER VI. EYE PIECES
CHAPTER VII. HAND TELESCOPES AND BINOCULARS
CHAPTER VIII. ACCESSORIES
CHAPTER IX. THE CARE AND TESTING OF TELESCOPES
CHAPTER X. SETTING UP AND HOUSING THE TELESCOPE
CHAPTER XI. SEEING AND MAGNIFICATION
APPENDIX. WORK FOR THE TELESCOPE
INDEX
Footnote
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Louis Bell
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Fig. 6.—Diagram of Terrestrial Ocular.
His untimely death, leaving behind an unpublished treatise on optics, was a grave loss to science, the more since the manuscript could not be found, and, swept away by the storms of war, his brilliant work dropped out of sight for above a score of years.
