Newtonian Reflector
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Newtonian Reflector
a type of reflecting telescope in which the rays reflected by the primary parabolic mirror are intercepted by a plane mirror and reflected to the side of the telescope tube, where the light-receiving equipment is located. Used only in small telescopes, it was designed by I. Newton around 1670.
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