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The 28-inch Photo-visual Refractor

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Exhibition from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, that explains the history of this telescope via words and archive photographs.

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Title: National Maritime Museum
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The National Maritime Museum (NMM) is the largest maritime museum in the world with a collection of over two million objects related to seafaring, navigation, astronomy and measuring time. The NMM inc

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