Christian Observer,  1 (1802), 44.

Russia

Anon

Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Astronomy, Instruments, Societies, Patronage


    The writer reports on the progress of the manufacture of 'a twenty-feet Herschelian reflecting telescope', made by William Herschel for the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 'partly with his own hand, and partly under his inspection'.



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