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The Royal Observatory in Edinburgh in Scotland is established. American scientist John William Draper takes the first photograph of the Moon. Harvard College Observatory is established in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. William Parsons builds a huge 72 -inch reflecting telescope at Birr Castle in Ireland, the largest astronomical device until 1917. German physicist Carl August von Steinheil constructs builds refractor and reflector telescopes with silver-covered mirrors based on the technique of German chemist Justus von Liebig. French physicist Léon Foucault develops the Foucault Test to determine the shape of reflecting telescopes. Austrian instrument maker Georg Simon Plössl invents the eponymous telescope eyepiece. The U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. builds a large optical refractor. The Vienna Observatory in Austria builds the largest optical refractor of its time. German physicist Ernst Abbe invents the Abbe orthographic eyepiece, aka Ortho. The McCormick Observatory in Charlottesville in Virginia, U.S.builds a large optical refractor. A large refractor is built by the Pulkovo observatory of Saint-Petersburg, Russia. A large refractor is built by the Côte d'Azur Observatory in Nice, France. The Lick Observatory at Mount Hamilton in California, U.S. constructs a large refractor. A large refractor is built by the Paris Observatory in Meudon, France. American astronomer Percival Lowell observes Mars in his observatory in Arizona. The Royal Greenwich Observatory Greenwich, London, U. K. builds a large optical refractor. The Archenhold Observatory in Berlin, Germany, builds a large optical refractor.

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Bibliography of Telescope History Timeline 6

Patten, B (2003). Ben's Magic Telescope.
Corbett, B (2003). Simple Guide to Telescopes, Spotting Scopes and Binoculars.
Barlow Pepin, M (2004). Manual for the Astronomical Observer. Practical Astronomy.



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