This was the first working reflecting telescope. Other designers proved unable to grind mirrors with a regular curvature, so the reflector remained largely a curiosity until the mid-18th century ...

An 18th-Century telescope, considered the "finest" example of its kind, has gone on display in Somerset. The Herschel Museum of Astronomy, in Bath, has acquired the Gregorian Reflector telescope ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. Sir William Herschel's contributions to astronomy during the late eighteenth ...