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PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2011

Thomas Woods
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The rapid sale of the First Edition, together with the many very favorable opinions expressed in reference to it by the Newspaper Press, leads the Author to hope that this work has been presented in an acceptable form. In the present edition he has therefore merely supplied a few trifling omissions which an unavoidable hurry in bringing out the former, occasioned.

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The Monster Telescopes, Erected by the Earl of Rosse, Parsonstown
With an Account of the Manufacture of the Specula, and Full Descriptions of All the Machinery Connected with These Instruments
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1844

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  • PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
  • Thomas Woods
  • Book: The Monster Telescopes, Erected by the Earl of Rosse, Parsonstown
  • Online publication: 01 March 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511709098.002
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  • PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
  • Thomas Woods
  • Book: The Monster Telescopes, Erected by the Earl of Rosse, Parsonstown
  • Online publication: 01 March 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511709098.002
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  • PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
  • Thomas Woods
  • Book: The Monster Telescopes, Erected by the Earl of Rosse, Parsonstown
  • Online publication: 01 March 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511709098.002
Available formats
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