The Great Paris Telescope.
Tue Observatory of Paris has just been fitted up with a very fine equatorial, designed by Mr. Lcewy, and presented by M. Bisehoffsheim. It's chief peculiarity is that the tube is bent in the middle to an angle of 90 deg., the whole thus forming two sides of a square. The light is imaged round the corner by a miiror at the bend, and sent up to the eyepiece. The eye end of the tube vises upward, and the observer sits on a chair above, and looks down into the reflected sky as if he were examining a microscopic specimen. Thig arrangement permits of great ease of working, and the usual cumbrous dome over the instrument can be dispensed with.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1902, 13 September 1884, Page 6
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124The Great Paris Telescope. Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1902, 13 September 1884, Page 6
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