Another article - The Greatest Telescope on Earth
A visit to the Yerkes observatory in 1897 - The Greatest Telescope on Earth by Walter George Bell.
http://forgottenfutures.com/library/telescope/telescope.htm
It's an interesting look at one of the last big refractor telescopes, but formatting HTML for measurements in weird fractions of an inch is a total pain!
Let me know if anything looks odd.
http://forgottenfutures.com/library/telescope/telescope.htm
It's an interesting look at one of the last big refractor telescopes, but formatting HTML for measurements in weird fractions of an inch is a total pain!
Let me know if anything looks odd.