Two such glasses inclosed in a tube completed the invention of the simplest kind of the refracting telescope. |
On a smooth surface, a fingerprint can stand out on its own, refracting light differently than the surface below. |
Knowing refracting corner of a prism, it could then calculate hades and refractions. |
This simple refracting telescope is still used in modern opera glasses, which are low-powered binoculars. |
Newton was led by this reasoning to the erroneous conclusion that telescopes using refracting lenses would always suffer chromatic aberration. |
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. |