THE GREAT MELBOURNE TELESCOPE
Dec 30, 2019
2 minutes
LINDA BRAINWOOD
ON 5 November 1868 a long-awaited shipment arrived at the Port of Melbourne – the Great Melbourne Telescope. While construction had begun in Ireland in 1866, a large-scale telescope to observe the Southern Hemisphere’s skies had been in planning since the 1850s.
Sent across the world in parts, it would, after its reassembly at the Melbourne
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