Meanings of reflecting telescope in English

Clyde Tombaugh as a young man with his home-built reflecting telescope.

I mounted my ten-inch home-made reflecting telescope, and began my survey of the heavens.

A reflecting telescope, of two feet focal length, by ditto.

Such is the principle of the famous reflecting telescope which bears the name of Newton.

In the reflecting telescope, however, there are necessary limitations.

A reflecting telescope: the largest in the world.

Even the wooden framework of the reflecting telescope which he used was painted a brilliant red.

I think it was about the year 1868 that I began to make a reflecting telescope.

Here is one of the chief sources of interest in the possibilities of a 100-inch reflecting telescope.

Three years later I initiated Mr. Maudslay into the art and mystery of making a reflecting telescope.

This may explain why Newton went on to invent the reflecting telescope for all his routine stargazing needs.

His employer, Mr. George Dickinson, also seems to have bought his reflecting telescope from him for the sum of

If the use be for carriage, the feet may shut up, like the usual brass feet of a reflecting telescope.

So George Clark made up his mind that he would make a reflecting telescope; that is, one with a mirror in it.

In the early 1830s the third earl of Rosse designed and built a reflecting telescope that for almost a c(...)

Several models are displayed, including a wood-and-paper creation depicting Newton's original tiny reflecting telescope, first unveiled to England's King Charles II in 1671.