Telescope speculum grinding tool for Lord Rosse's 72-inch telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland
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Telescope speculum grinding tool for Lord Rosse's 72-inch telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland
Plate 24 figure 3 from the paper 'On the construction of specula of six-feet aperture; and a selection from the observations of nebulae made with them', by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 151 (1861) pp.681-746. A rear view of the cast iron grinding tool used to produce the speculum (mirror) of the reflecting telescope at Birr Castle, Parsonstown, Ireland. The circular tool is shown suspended on gimbals from a pulley. The image is inscribed in ink, verso 'Original photograph from which reduced plate made'.
Original: albumen print. 1861
- Image ref: RS-9079
- The Royal Society
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