Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Duke of Kent figures 4-7: Acanthosoma hystrix

figures 4-7: Acanthosoma hystrix

Interior of Burlington Arcade

with the wall of the lean-to and part of the South front

one sleeps

to the rear

Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Duke of Kent figures 4-7: Acanthosoma hystrixStereoscopic photograph used to produce Plate 24 figure 5 from the paper 'On the construction of specula of six feet aperture; and a selection from the observations of nebulae made with them', by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 151 (1861) pp. 681 746. The great telescope seen from the south east, the stage of the first gallery slightly raised. The instrument's scale is demonstrated by groups