The Digges-Bourne telescope - an alternative possibility

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Dec 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993jbaa..103..310w&link_type=abstract

Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.103, no.6, p.310-312

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Historical, Discovery Of The Telescope

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In this paper, it is argued that one of William Bourne's descriptions of lens and mirror combinations used by Leonard Digges in producing magnifying images of distant objects during his mid-1500s experiments cannot apply to an arrangement in the Herschelian form. Recent experiments with lenses and mirrors arranged in accordance with this alternative interpretation lead to some remarkable results, enhancing the credibility of the reported results of Digges' trials. However, telescopes made along these lines cannot really be termed reflectors.

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