The Great Melbourne Telescope

Nonfiction, History
Cover of the book The Great Melbourne Telescope by Richard Gillespie, Museum Victoria
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Author: Richard Gillespie ISBN: 9781921833298
Publisher: Museum Victoria Publication: November 1, 2011
Imprint: Museum Victoria Language: English
Author: Richard Gillespie
ISBN: 9781921833298
Publisher: Museum Victoria
Publication: November 1, 2011
Imprint: Museum Victoria
Language: English

Erected at Melbourne Observatory in 1869, the telescope was the second largest in the world, designed to explore the nature of the nebulae in the southern skies. Richard Gillespie, head of the History and Technology department at the Melbourne museum has written an entertaining account of the telescope’s extraordinary history and tells the story through an amazing cast of characters whose lives intersected with the telescope.

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Erected at Melbourne Observatory in 1869, the telescope was the second largest in the world, designed to explore the nature of the nebulae in the southern skies. Richard Gillespie, head of the History and Technology department at the Melbourne museum has written an entertaining account of the telescope’s extraordinary history and tells the story through an amazing cast of characters whose lives intersected with the telescope.

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