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16 40 Foot Telescope Stock Photos and High-res Pictures

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Engraving by J Pass of William Herschel�s 40-foot telescope in Slough, Berkshire, assembled in 1787 and dismantled in 1839. The massive reflecting...

�Herschel�s Grand Forty-feet Reflecting Telescope�, 1819.

Illustration taken from the periodical 'Philosophical Transactions'. This 40-foot telescope was constructed by Sir William Herschel in the grounds of...

Herschels forty-foot reflecting telescope, 1795.

William Herschel's reflecting telescope with focal length of 40 feet , showing top of brick foundation and wheeled platform on which the instrument...

William Herschel's (1738-1822) reflecting telescope with focal length of 40 feet (12.19m), showing top of brick foundation and wheeled platform on which the instrument mounted. Slough, England. Engraving 1809.

Photograph of a barn thought to have been used for the assembly of Herschel?s great 40 foot telescope, in the village of Upton near Slough known as...

Timber frame thatched barn, Slough, Berkshire, 1920-1924.

The British astronomer Sir William Herschel made this 48-inch concave metal mirror for his 40 foot telescope at Slough, Berkshire. Cast in 1785, the...

Original mirror for William Herschel�s 40 foot telescope, 1785.

An experimental photograph on paper printed from a glass negative taken by Sir John Herschel in about 1839. This was the only image recorded of the...

Herschels Telescope, c 1839.

Circular salted paper photographic print by the English astronomer, mathematician and chemist Sir John Herschel , of the telescope built by his...

View of the telescope at Slough, Berkshire, 1839.

Entitled �The Forty-Foot Telescope at Slough�, this is one of only 25 prints made in 1890 from the original negative. This was the only image...

Early photograph of William Herschel�s telescope at Slough, 1839.

Engraved plate taken from �Philosophical Transactions�, showing the famous astronomer, Sir William Herschel�s 40 foot telescope. This reflecting...

William Herschels 40 foot telescope at Slough, Berkshire, 1795.

Four leaves, summer 1839. Water fixed photogenic drawing negative by Sir John Frederick William Herschel . Herschel was an English astronomer and...

Four leaves, summer 1839. Water fixed photo

William Herschel's reflecting telescope with focal length of 40 feet, Slough, England, 1809. The illustration shows the top of the brick foundation...

William Herschel's reflecting telescope with focal length of 40 feet, Slough, England, 1809.

William Herschel German-born English astronomer. Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781. It was the first planet to be discovered since ancient times....

William Herschel (1738-1822) German-born English astronomer.

The camp of the Lick Observatory-Crocker Eclipse Expedition, as seen from the southeast, showing the polar axis carrying the Floyd Camera and the...

Lick Observatory-Crocker Eclipse Expedition, Wallal, WA

The Large Gasholder at the Imperial Gas Company's Works, Bethnal-Green, 1858. '...the dimensions of gasholders have increased from a capacity of...

The Large Gasholder At The Imperial Gas Companys Works

herschel's 40 foot reflecting telescope, illustration - 40 foot telescope stock illustrations

Herschel's 40 foot reflecting telescope, illustration

william herschel's 40-foot telescope, built 1785-89, wood engraving, published 1877 - 40 foot telescope stock illustrations

William Herschel's 40-foot telescope, built 1785-89, wood engraving, published 1877

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