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Discuss the development of the refracting telescope from 1600 to 1900.
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Discuss the relative advantages and disadvantages of refracting and reflecting telescopes
- around 1700;
- around 1800;
- around 1900.
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In cases (ii) and (iii), identify the key technological advance that has shifted
the balance between the two types of telescope.
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Briefly discuss the technological (and other) advances between
Galileo's time and 1838 that were
needed to make the first measurement of stellar parallax possible.
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[2007 Q3.]
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