Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland arthurian legend after burning for two days

after burning for two days and nights

21st November 1957

Illustration from chapter on 'The influence of two dissimilar metals on the muscular fibres of a frog'

Tomb of Roger Niger

Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland arthurian legend after burning for two daysMonoscopic 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