Telescopes

Examples

• The place is stored with great variety of sextants, quadrants, telescopes, astrolabes, and other astronomical instruments. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• At all the courts and universities the telescopes were received with the greatest enthusiasm, and put to instant use in the hope of discovering new stars. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Their lenses for telescopes and microscopes and photographic cameras, and glass and prisms, and for all chemical and other scientific work, have a worldwide reputation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In 1758 John Dolland reinvented and introduced the same in the manufacture of telescopes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He made use of telescopes 20 and 40 feet in focal length, and of 18. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He sent copies to some friends, and shortly his microscopes were as much in demand as his telescopes had been. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes, until he was lost among the distant inequalities of the ice. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The invention of John Dolland of London, about 1758, of the achromatic lens should be borne in mind in connection with telescopes, microscopes, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Galileo wrote out statements of his discoveries, and sent these, with his new telescopes, to the princes and learned men of Italy, France, Flanders, and Germany. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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