The Telescope: Optical Principles Involved in the Construction of Refracting and Reflecting Telescopes, with a New Chapter on the Evolution of the Modern Telescope and a Bibliography to Date

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D. Van Nostrand Company, 1904 - Reflecting telescopes - 128 pages
 

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