English Explanatory Dictionary

Keplerian telescope

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An improvement on the Galilean telescope, having a convex lens as the eyepiece instead of Galileo's concave one.

Word forms

Keplerian telescope Keplerian telescopes

Etymology

Invented by Johannes Kepler in 1611.

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