Sujet
Lord Rosse's 72 in/1.8m reflecting telescope, 1849. Artist: Unknown
Légende
Lord Rosse's 72 in/1.8m reflecting telescope, 1849. William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800-1867), Irish astronomer and engineer, built what was then the largest telescope in the world on his estate at Parsonstown, Ireland. With it he discovered 15 spiral nebulae, and named the Crab nebula. From his paper On the Construction of Specula [mirrors] of Six-feet Aperture ... from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. (London, 1849).
Oxford Science Archive
Date
1849
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images
Notre référence
HRM19B65_332
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,0Mo (2,0Mo) / 38,0cm x 32,9cm / 4487 x 3891 (300dpi)