Pronunciation of the English word telescopes.
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1. | The view of Mars through earthly telescopes suggested that all was serene. | |
2. | So late as 1610, Galileo, a Florentine, discovered and introduced the use of telescopes, and by applying them to observe the motions and appearances of the heavenly bodies, afforded additional means for ascertaining the true structure of the universe. | |
3. | Before astronomers had telescopes, they could only use quadrants to map objects in the sky. | |
4. | For centuries, astronomers believed that the Milky Way made up the entire universe. Hubble was among the first to show that the fuzzy patches in the sky seen through telescopes were other galaxies, not distant parts of the Milky Way. | |
5. | William's hobby was astronomy and he devoted most of his free time to making more and more powerful telescopes with which to look deeper into space. | |
6. | William's reputation as a telescope maker grew to such an extent that he quit his job as a musician and devoted all of his time to the making of telescopes and to astronomy. | |
7. | Caroline began to help her brother in the manufacture of telescopes and to share his passion for astronomy. | |
8. | He even learned to make his own telescopes to study the sky. | |
9. | The telescope Clyde built in 1925 was only the first of more than thirty telescopes he was to build over his lifetime. | |
10. | Telescopes have a primary and a secondary mirror. |