Lord Rosse's telescope, Birr, Offaly, Ireland mb-code BK011383 he hacked off the duke's

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An illustration from Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake

'The Octopus of Monopoly

View of the Royal Hospital

1855 (1926)

Lord Rosse's telescope, Birr, Offaly, Ireland mb-code BK011383 he hacked off the duke'sLord Rosse's telescope, Birr, Offaly, Ireland, 1924 1926. William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800 1867), Irish astronomer and engineer, built what was then the largest telescope in the world on his estate at Birr (then known as Parsonstown), Ireland. The instrument was known as 'the Leviathan of Parsonstown'. With it Lord Rosse discovered 15 spiral nebulae, and named the Crab nebula. A print from Hutchinson's Britain Beautiful, edited by Walter