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| #3102352 in Books | Cambridge University Press | 1995-05-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.03 x.55 x6.26l,.87 | File type: PDF | 240 pages | ||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Tries to cover too much|By Charles Hall|Not sure what I was expecting, perhaps a book that focused on older designs or off-beat amateur designs. These are included in the book, but they share precious space with many modern professional telescopes. And of course it's the modern ones that are made obsolete the fastest. So you wind up with outdated coverage of multiple mirror tel||"...amatuer astronomer Peter Manly takes us on an unforgetable tour... the reader leaves this book with an increased sense of awareness of how varied and beautiful the history of telescopes has been." David H. Levy, The Strolling Astronomer
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In this book, Peter Manly surveys more than 150 unusual telescope designs. These are telescopes built by amateur and professional astronomers to suit some special need. There is, for instance, an inflatable telescope and one with a liquid mirror. Every so often a neglected design comes back into fashion: the largest telescopes now under construction use the alt-azimuth design that was ignored for over a century, and liquid mirror telescopes can be used for zenithal astr...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Unusual Telescopes | Peter L. Manly. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
