Telescope
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
a telescope · crude, imperfect telescopes · telescope
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The Law of Intellectual Property
An optical instrument used as an illustrative example of an object whose design is as much wealth as its materials.
The idea, or design, after which a telescope is constructed, is as much wealth, as are the materials of which the telescope is composed.
Law in a Free State
An optical instrument used as the central analogy for the value of a well-developed mind (education) over accumulated facts (instruction).
Two astronomers set to work to make observations with crude, imperfect telescopes.
it enables us to communicate our ideas to others separated from us by space and time, Reading and writing, then, are only useful instruments to enlarge our powers of observation, just as the telescope is a means of drawing nearer to us phenomena separated from us by intervals of space too wide for our unaided vision;