Reflecting Telescope Definition

Reflecting Telescope Sentence Examples

• Newton was the first to construct a reflecting telescope.

• He was well aware of the failures of all attempts to perfect telescopes by employing lenses of various forms of curvature, and accordingly proposed the form of reflecting telescope which bears his name.

• A third form of reflecting telescope was devised in 1672 by Cassegrain (Journal des Scavans, 1672).

• The great reflecting telescope at Dorpat was manufactured by him, and so great was the skill he attained in the making of lenses for achromatic telescopes that, in a letter to Sir David Brewster, he expressed his willingness to furnish an achromatic glass of 18 in.

• The fine castle of Birr, beside its historical interest, has gained celebrity on account of the reflecting telescope erected here (1828-1845) by William, third earl of Rosse.