Practical observations on telescopes.

  • William Kitchiner
Date:
1815
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Practical observations on telescopes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    them, on purpose to deter them from the pursuit, and that they cannot bear that others should climb the hill of knowledge by a readier road than they themselves did : and such is I'esprit du corps, that as their prede¬ cessors supported themselves by serving it out gradalim et stillatim, and retailing with a sparing hand the information they so hardly obtained, they find it convenient to follow their example; and, willing to do as they have been done by, leave and bequeath the inheritance undiminished to those who may succeed them. I heartily lament, that from these most determined and formidable enemies, the lovers of Astronomy have as many impedi • ments to contend with as need be; very many more than sufficient to suspend their curiosity on the subject. The principal prejudice which has con¬ fined the study of the minutiae of Astro¬ nomy to the Observatories of the State, and of a few opulent individuals, is, that an immense apparatus of unwieldy magnitude, extremely costly to purchase, difficult to
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