| Not only is the roof above them made of glass, it is also filled with water, further refracting the light received in the public spaces below. | 
| This simple refracting telescope is still used in modern opera glasses, which are low-powered binoculars. | 
| Two such glasses inclosed in a tube completed the invention of the simplest kind of the refracting telescope. | 
| Has he ever tried writing music without refracting things through his own personal experience, divorcing himself from the act of creation? | 
| Knowing refracting corner of a prism, it could then calculate hades and refractions. | 
| Because glass does not transmit infrared radiation very efficiently, refracting telescopes are unsuitable for most kinds of infrared astronomy. |