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Originally Posted by Omaroo
A historical figure worthy of all the adulation? Sorry, but I don't see it.
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I thought the program concentrated a little too long on his dialogue of epithets and perhaps not enough emphasis on the revolution he started and its evolution : hundreds of thousands of people now own apertures sufficent to see the Universe in a detailed and personal way, unatainable by the average person 30 years ago.
His ongoing legacy stems not just from cardboard tubes riding on space age Teflon and vibration damping plywood, but developing thin mirror lightweight polishing techniques that made there way to Bob Kestner who passed on that wisdom in a series of published articles which I can guarantee that all the opticians supplying large mirrors today 'cut their teeth on' . Omaroo, I notice you don't own a Dobsonian telescope..perhaps you should spend some time with one and you'd understand better the `reverence' people hold for this wonderful man who realised elegant simplicty can sometimes be far more productive than complexity
Mark