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Optics Highlights: The Telescope

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Part of an anecdotal history of optics and the study of light. Extremely thorough treatment of the invention of the telescope. Includes a short biographical sketch and discusses the work of Isaac Newton which focuses on his contribution to the field of optics.

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Concepts
lenses, light, light refraction, mirrors, optics, refraction, telescopes
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Additional Tags
lens, ray optics, reflecting telescope, reflecting telescopes, cassegrain, galileo, greggory, hall, keppler, lippershey, newton, newtonian telescope, optics highlights: the telescope, schmidt, biography, reflection, telescope, refracting telescope
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)