Excerpt from The Telescope: The Principles Involved in the Construction of Refracting and Reflecting Telescopes
The following discussion of the ele mentary optical principles of the tele scope was written two years ago, and is now published without alteration or additions.
From the nature of the subject, the writer can, of course, claim no origin ality, except for the form in which he presents the material, collected and condensed from various treatises on optics.
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