Lassell, William (1799-1880)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3795. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Born in Bolton, England. A wealthy businessman (a Liverpool brewer), Lassell built progressively larger reflecting telescopes. His innovation was to have them made not in the Herschelian tradition of wood and altazimuthally mounted but with massive, strong iron frames, equatorially mounted on high-quality bearings. He commissioned engineer/astronomer JAMES NASMYTH, to make his 24 in telescope, wi...

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