| Two such glasses inclosed in a tube completed the invention of the simplest kind of the refracting telescope. |
| This simple refracting telescope is still used in modern opera glasses, which are low-powered binoculars. |
| A refracting telescope is one of the ordinary pocket type, having an object-lens at one end and an eyepiece at the other. |
| Though not the inventor, he was the first to construct a refracting telescope and apply it to astronomical research. |
| A rickety refracting telescope followed, as did involvement with the Edmonton chapter of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. |
| The refracting telescope was cured of its inherent vices by British ingenuity. |
