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He advised me to write to Tulley, a well-known practical optician, who made me some new reflectors, &c. (so that I had two specimens, one Gregorian, the other Cassegrainian).
Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896
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This is mounted in the Cassegrainian manner, so that the observer looks straight through it towards the object viewed, of which he really sees a twice-reflected image.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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