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Categories: Telescope types, long volume value, Dutch inventions, Telescopes, Science and technology in the Dutch Republic
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refracting telescope  Galileo's telescope  Galileo Telescope  Kepler refractor  Keplerian telescope
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Optical telescope that has a large convex lens that produces an image that is viewed through the eyepiece WordNet 3.0
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A refracting telescope is a type of optical telescope that uses a lens as its objective to form an image. Wikipedia
Type of optical telescope Wikidata
Telescope that uses lenses to magnify and focus an image onto an eyepiece. OmegaWiki
A telescope which produces a magnified image by refracting light through a series of lenses housed in a tube, with a light-gathering objective lens at one end and an eyepiece at the other. Wiktionary