reflecting telescope
Britishnoun
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In 1969, Carnegie opened Las Campanas Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, replete with a 100-inch reflecting telescope of its own.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2023
A latch to open the top when it stopped moving, and I was ready to attach the plastic tube — and make the longest, and last, reflecting telescope in history.
From Nature • May 21, 2019
As a child, he built model airplanes and spent days constructing a reflecting telescope.
From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2018
The first successful reflecting telescope was built by Isaac Newton in 1668.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
In a reflecting telescope the image is magnified by a curved mirror, while in a refracting telescope it is magnified by passing through a lens.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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