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Mary Rosse 
Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland 
1857 (ca) 
  
Albumen print, stereoview, detail 
The Royal Society 
Product code: RS-9084 
  
 
LL/58673 
  
Monoscopic view from a stereo image used to produce Plate 24 figure 7 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, showing the position of the telescope when a man enters the tube to fix the small speculum and remove the cover of the large mirror. The Earl of Rosse is standing in the telescope tube. A group of four other figures are on, or in front of, a mobile platform on rails. These include two of Rosse's children, Clere Parsons standing and Charles Algernon Parsons seated on the platform rail near two male observers. 
 

 
  
 
  
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