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Understanding what ‘400 years’ stands for, through telescopes

This is how Leonard Digges described a telescope in 1571: By concave and convex mirrors of circular [spherical] and parabolic forms, or by paires of them placed at due angles, and using the aid of transparent glasses which may break, … Continue reading

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