Cassegrain, Laurent (c. 1629-93)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3519. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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French teacher and priest, inventor (1672) of the Cassegrain telescope configuration, the most widely used reflecting telescope in astronomy. It consists of a concave primary mirror and a convex secondary, in which the compact arrangement of mirrors can be chosen so that aberrations on each mirror cancel each other. Little is known of the life of this shadowy figure, who lived and worked near Cha...

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