Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings. William F. Denning
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William F. Denning
Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066231460
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE TELESCOPE, ITS INVENTION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ITS POWERS.
CHAPTER II. RELATIVE MERITS OF LARGE AND SMALL TELESCOPES.
CHAPTER III. NOTES ON TELESCOPES AND THEIR ACCESSORIES.
CHAPTER IV. NOTES ON TELESCOPIC WORK.
CHAPTER XIII. URANUS AND NEPTUNE.
CHAPTER XIV. COMETS AND COMET-SEEKING.
CHAPTER XV. METEORS AND METEORIC OBSERVATIONS.
CHAPTER XVII. NEBULÆ AND CLUSTERS OF STARS.
| Plate I. Interior of Mr. Klein’s Observatory | Frontispiece |
| II. View of Mr. Klein’s Grounds and Observatory | To face p. 82 |
| Fig. | Page | |
| 1. | The Galilean Telescope | 7 |
| 2. | Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in Flamsteed’s time | 8 |
| 3. | Sir Isaac Newton | 10 |
| 4. | Gregorian Telescope | 10 |
| 5. | Cassegrainian Telescope | 11 |
| 6. | Newtonian Telescope | 11 |
| 7. | Common Refracting-Telescope | 12 |
| 8. | Le Mairean or Herschelian Telescope | 13 |
| 9. | 10-inch Reflecting-Telescope on a German Equatoreal, by Calver | 17 |
| 10. | Lord Rosse’s 6-foot Reflecting-Telescope | 22 |
| 11. | Refracting-Telescope, by Browning | 32 |
| 12. | “The Popular Reflector,” by Calver | 40 |
| 13. | 3-inch Refracting-Telescope, by Newton & Co. | 41 |
| 14. | Huygens’s Negative Eyepiece | 46 |
| 15. | Ramsden’s Positive Eyepiece | 47 |
| 16. | Berthon’s Dynamometer | 50 |
| 17. | Cooke and Sons’ Educational Telescope | 52 |
| 18. |
Refracting-Telescope |