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Noun Concept
Categories: Optical telescopes, Telescope types, 1663 in science, 1663 introductions, 17th-century inventions
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reflecting telescope  reflector  Coude focus  coudé  coudé focus
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Optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece WordNet 3.0
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Optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A reflecting telescope is a telescope that uses a single or a combination of curved mirrors that reflect light and form an image. Wikipedia
Telescope design that collects and focuses light with a combination of mirrors Wikidata
Telescope that uses mirrors to magnify and focus an image onto an eyepiece. OmegaWiki
A telescope which produces a magnified image by reflecting light through a series of mirrors housed in a tube, using a large curved mirror to gather the light and one or more additional mirrors to transmit the light to an eyepiece. Wiktionary
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Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope in 1668 WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
IS A
optical telescope
equipment
HAS PART
mirror
primary mirror
secondary mirror
parabolic mirror
PART OF
photography
Schmidt telescope
HAS KIND
Cassegrainian telescope
coude telescope
Herschelian telescope
Maksutov telescope
Newtonian telescope
+9 relations
HAS INSTANCE
Crossley telescope
Dutch Open Telescope
W. M. Keck Observatory
40-foot telescope
Leonhard Euler Telescope
+17 relations
CREATOR
Newton
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
DISCOVERER OR INVENTOR
James Gregory
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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reflecting telescope, reflector
Wikipedia
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reflecting telescope
Wikidata
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reflecting telescope
Wiktionary
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reflecting telescope
OmegaWiki
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reflecting telescope
Wikipedia Redirections
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Coude focus, coudé, coudé focus, Dall-Kirkham, Dall-Kirkham telescope, Dall–Kirkham telescope, Off-axis reflecting telescope, prime focus, Reflecting Telescope, reflecting telescopes, reflective telescope, reflector telescope, Schiefspiegler telescope, Serial acquisition reflecting telescope, Serial aquisition reflecting telescope, Side-placed ocular, Yolo telescope
Wikidata Alias
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reflector

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