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                                 Image number: RS.9116
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            [Major] Tennant's reflector used for photography
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                                1874
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                50055
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (print): 150mm
width (print): 120mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (print): 120mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Illustration of a reflecting telescope used in India to photograph a solar eclipse in 1868, from Contributions to solar physics, by J Norman Lockyer (London, 1874).
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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