Reflecting telescope Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece
    reflector.
    • Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope in 1668

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  1. . See under Telescope.
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  1. a telescope in which the image is formed by a speculum or mirror (or usually by two speculums, a large one at the lower end of the telescope, and the smaller one near the open end) instead of an object glass. See Gregorian, Cassegrainian, Herschelian, ∧ Newtonian, telescopes, above.

Webster 1913