Ramsden eyepiece

Ramsden eyepiece
an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex crown-glass lenses of equal focal length, placed with the convex sides facing each other and with a separation between the lenses of about two-thirds of the focal length of each.
[1840-50; named after Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800), English maker of astronomical instruments]

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