EditorialKatie Carolan, a telescope demonstrator, poses with the 12-inch Zeiss refracting telescope at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, July 27, 2022. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialEquatorial instrument (refracting telescope) made by Jesse Ramsden for Sir. George Shuckburgh. Copperplate engraving by Sidney Hall after a drawing by J. Farey Jr. from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, ...