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Leviathan of Parsonstown...

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 30 older comments, and then…
• Foxglove said:

  so great to see an old photo of this ! we were talking about it the other evening

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Foxglove It's a fantastic construction/contraption/feat of engineering, is it not?

• Swordscookie said:

  I had never seen it, truly a fantastic piece of work. I take it The Lord Rosse looking in the scope is the other one???

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Swordscookie I think he could be Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse - the beard seems right. But if anyone knows any different...

• Niall McAuley said:

  It's still there, restored quite recently:
  
  
  
  This was the largest telescope in the world for 70 years.

Out standing in his own field?

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 11 older comments, and then…
• Sharon Corbet said:

  William Parsons, third Earl of Rosse, John's Place, Birr, County Offaly and yes to answer your questions.

• Sharon Corbet said:

  Streetview The NIAH entry dates it to c. 1870 (he died in 1867) and the photo is pre-engraving of his name on the plinth, so it must be shortly after it was erected.

• Sharon Corbet said:

  A slightly different view of the statue in the Lawrence Collection, but also lacking engraving so probably taken at a similar time frame.

• Foxglove said:

  within NLofI Flickr I think you have a photo listed with the "great telescope",

• Niall McAuley said:

  The DIA says it is by John Henry Foley, who also started the O'Connell monument in O'Connell St, did Fr. Matthew in Cork, Goldsmith and Burke in Trinity, Prince Albert on Leinster Lawn, Carlisle and Gough in the Phoenix Park, a Guinness at St. Patrick's Cathedral, and Grattan on College Green. I think we have seen all of those in the nli Flickr stream!

Home made telescope mounted on a drum

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  Fascinating staff.

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  "For it is true that astronomy, from a popular standpoint, is handicapped by the inability of the average workman to own an expensive astronomical telescope. It is also true that if an amateur starts out to build a telescope just for fun he will find, before his labors are over, that he has become seriously interested in the wonderful mechanism of our universe. And finally, there is understandably the stimulus of being able to unlock the mysteries of the heavens by a tool fashioned by one's own hand." Russell W. Porter Founder of Stellafane, March 1923 Source: stellafane.org/tm/atm/index.html