Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Finish:20-pack Monza 500 Miles

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View with a shepherd and a woman in the foreground

Subsequent wild speculation had caused the company to fail and many members of the public lost money

The accompanying text states that 'This beautiful specimen

Sir John Musgrave

Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Finish:20-pack Monza 500 MilesMonoscopic view from a stereo image used to produce Plate 24 figure 6 from the paper 'On the construction of specula of six feet aperture; and a selection from the observations of nebulae made with them', by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 151 (1861) pp. 681 746. The great telescope seen from the south west, showing the machinery of the second and third galleries. Beside the telescope is a