WORKS OF ART.—Dr. Herschel’s Grand Telescope

The Unionist 1833-09-05

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WORKS OF ART.—Dr. Herschel’s Grand Telescope. The tube of this instrument is thirty-nine feet four inches long, and four feet and ten inches in diameter, every part being made of iron. It was begun in 1785 and completed in 1789. It magnifies six thousand times.

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Title: WORKS OF ART.—Dr. Herschel’s Grand Telescope
Description: The size and magnification of Herschel's telescope
Bibliographic Citation: The Unionist 1833-09-05
Full Issue Sequence Number: 1833-09-05 p.04.42
Type: Text
Language: English
Publisher: The Unionist
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Subject: Miscellaneous Filler; Science
Source: The Unionist
Original Item: sjsu-library.github.io
Identifier: unionist--text-0116
Category: Unionist content
Issue: 6
Related People: William Herschel
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