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What is a reflecting telescope?

What is a reflecting telescope? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A telescope which produces a magnified image by reflecting light through a series of mirrors housed in a tube, using a large curved mirror to gather the light and one or more additional mirrors to transmit the light to an eyepiece.
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It is well established that he worked for many years to perfect a reflecting telescope for his own use.
He made his reflecting telescope entirely on his own, some parts of it with tools that he made specifically for the purpose.
In 1973 she built a reflecting telescope with a nine-inch mirror that she ground and polished herself.
If the use be for carriage, the feet may shut up, like the usual brass feet of a reflecting telescope.
The reflecting telescope, however, had in turn certain drawbacks of its own.
The Newtonian telescope is a type of reflecting telescope still in popular use.

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