As Seen Through a Telescope (AKA: The Professor and His Field Glass) is a 1900 British short silent comedy film, directed by George Albert Smith, featuring...

such as Grandma's Reading Glass and Mary Jane's Mishap. In 1900, Smith made As Seen Through a Telescope. The main shot shows a street scene with a young...

prior to Airy; John Herschel described the appearance of a bright star seen through a telescope under high magnification for an 1828 article on light for...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy. As the largest telescope in space, it is equipped with...

the modern telescope can be traced to before the invention of the earliest known telescope, which appeared in 1608 in the Netherlands, when a patent was...

Copernican world system, and he said that the appearance of the stars as seen through a telescope actually argued against Copernicus. These findings are contrasting...

close-ups in films as early as 1898 and by 1900 was incorporating extreme close-ups in films such as As Seen Through a Telescope and Grandma's Reading Glass...

make a photograph, or to collect data through electronic image sensors. There are three primary types of optical telescope: Refracting telescopes, which...

as seen through a telescope were included) lunar and solar eclipses the fixed stars the planets and their motions, etc. (representations of each as seen...

example a distant lake would not resemble a tree when seen through a telescope. The behaviour of telescopes on Earth denied any basis for arguing that...