On the Construction of a Silvered Glass Telescope

Name: On the Construction of a Silvered Glass Telescope
Author: Henry Draper

by Henry Draper

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On the Construction of a Silvered Glass Telescope Fifteen and a half inches in aperture, and its use in celestial photography

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Thiers Halliwell, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2016-11-17

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Astronomy Astronomical photography Reflecting telescopes

About the author

Henry Draper

1837–1882

An American physician and pioneering astronomer, he helped open the age of astrophotography by capturing some of the first detailed photographs of the Moon and the first photograph of a stellar spectrum showing absorption lines. His work linked medicine, chemistry, and astronomy in a way that shaped modern observational science.

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