The number of stands I invented for these telescopes it would not be easy to assign.... In 1781 I began to construct a thirty foot aërial reflector, and having made a stand for it, I cast the mirror thirty-six inches in diameter. This was cracked in cooling. I cast it a second time, and the furnace I had built in my house broke.


Ch.4 "Life and Works". - Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works (1880)

William Herschel Quotes

The number of stands I invented for these telescopes it would not be easy to assign.... In 1781 I began to construct a thirty foot aërial reflector, ...

The number of stands I invented for these telescopes it would not be easy to assign.... In 1781 I began to construct a thirty foot aërial reflector, ...

The number of stands I invented for these telescopes it would not be easy to assign.... In 1781 I began to construct a thirty foot aërial reflector, ...

The number of stands I invented for these telescopes it would not be easy to assign.... In 1781 I began to construct a thirty foot aërial reflector, ...