Science Museum | Polishing a bronze telescope mirror I Shaping Science episode 6 @ScienceMuseum | Uploaded May 2020 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
Polishing piece of bronze is more complicated than you might think. Especially when it's a telescope mirror. Mirror maker Terry Kubecki Pearce uses an historical technique to create a replica telescope mirror similar to the one William Hershel used to discover the planet Uranus. To learn more about crafting telescopes in our blog post;

blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/looking-at-the-mirror

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