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Telescope timeline 4 of 9 from 1637 to 1672 at Timeline Help.

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French theologian Marin Mersenne shows a ways to construct reflecting telescopes that looks like Cassegrain and Gregorian telescopes. Rene Descartes publishes Snell's Law in the book Dioptrique. Czech astronomer and optician Anton Schyrle aka Rheita explains a new desin for a binocular Keplerian telescope with erector lenses. Niccolò Zucchi writes his Optica Philosophia Experimentalis et Ratione a Fundamentis Constituta that will inspire Isaac Newton James Gregory to implement telescope improvements. Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens Huygens discovers Titan, moon of Saturn, and the rings of this planet using his powerful of 12 feet focal length Keplerian telescope. Christiaan Huygens observes Orion Nebula. Christiaan Huygens publishes the book Systema Saturnium on his discoveries and observations. French land-surveyor in the North American colony of New France Jean Bourdon uses a telescope not for astronomy but for surveying territories. Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini and Robert Hooke discover the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. Scottish mathematician James Gregory explains a new form of a reflecting telescope in his Optica Promota, later knows as the Gregorian telescope. English physicist Isaac Newton invents a small reflecting butvery powerful telescope, aka the Newtonian. Giovanni Cassini discovers Sidera Lodoicea and Rhea, moons of Saturn. French priest Laurent Cassegrain invents a reflecting telescope based on the techniques of the Gregorian aka the Cassegrain. with a convex hyperboloidal and paraboloid mirrors.

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Bibliography of the Telescope Timeline 4

Mollise, R (2001). Choosing and Using a Schmidt-Cassegrain, A Guide to Commercial SCTs and Maksutovs.
Maun I and Marsden, R (2001). Telescope 1 Student's Book.
Consolmagn, G and Davis, D (2000). Turn Left at Orion: A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See and How to Find Them.
Seear (1998). Views from the Hubble Telescope.
Barbree, J and Caidin, M (1995). Exploring the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope. Penguin Studio.



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