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Hevelius observing with a wooden-tubed refracting telescope some 30 feet

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Hevelius observing with a wooden-tubed refracting telescope some 30 feet (9.144m). The block-and-tackle and rope mounting was not inconvenient. From "Selenographia" by Johannes Hevelius (Gedani, Gdansk. Danzig, 1647). Engraving.

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