Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland mb-code 00348088 10th January 1954

10th January 1954

Viscount Melville

Walwert Sculpsit

The Supremes walking in Great Cumberland Street

Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland mb-code 00348088 10th January 1954Stereoscopic photograph used to produce Plate 24 figure 5 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 east, the stage of the first gallery slightly raised. The instrument's scale is demonstrated by groups