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Title: The remains of William Herschel's telescope. 2006 [Go to resource]
Description: This part of the tube is the only known remains of William Herschel's forty-foot telecsope. This telescope showed 75 million more stars than could be seen before, and Herschel used it to discover 4 moons - 2 orbiting Uranus, and 2 orbiting Saturn. Before the telescope was finished in August 1789, the construction attracted lots of visitors. To their amusement, the tube was easy to walk through, even dressed in a bell hoop! The telescope was marked on Ordnance Survey maps, but was finally dismantled in 1839. When Observatory House was demolished in 1960, the telescope moved to National Maritme Museum, Greenwich. Format: image/jpeg License: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 Rights holder: Slough Library Subjects: Telescopes
Observatory House ;Temporal: start=1960-01-01; end=2006-07-11; Source: Sense of place SE Creator: Jacky Burns Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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