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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

Additional Tags

lens, ray optics, reflecting telescope, reflecting telescopes, cassegrain, galileo, greggory, hall, keppler, lippershey, newton, newtonian telescope, schmidt, biography, reflection, telescope, refracting telescope

Classroom Considerations

Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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