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Lunette over the main door of the Luxembourg Palace in Paris Charles Sprague Pearce, Rest (1896). Mural in a lunette in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. A lunette (French lunette , 'little moon') is a crescent- or half-moon–shaped or semi-circular architectural space or feature, variously filled with ...
Meudon Great Refractor (also known as the Grande Lunette) is a double telescope with lenses (83 cm + 62 cm), in Meudon, France. It is a twin refracting telescope built in 1891, with one visual and one photographic, on a single square-tube together on an equatorial mount, inside a dome. The Refractor was built for the Meudon Observatory, and is ...
This word comes from French lorgnette, from lorgner (to take a sidelong look at), but it is a false friend: the equivalent French name for this (obsolete) optical instrument is face-à-main while lorgnette (or lunette d'approche, longue-vue) usually means a ship captain's (monocular) telescope.
[5] [6] In French language it has been called the La lunette équatoriale de 38 cm de l'Observatoire de Paris. [7] The telescope had an objective lens 14 pouces across, which is a name for Paris Inches; [4] this works out to about 38 cm (14.96 (usually rounded to 15) English inches). The original objective was completed by Lerebours by 1844. [4]
Paul Gautier, “Note sur le sidérostat à lunette de 60 m de foyer et de 1,25 m d’ouverture,” in Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes pour 1899 (Paris, 1898), pp. C1–C26. Françoise Launay, “The Great Paris Exhibition Telescope of 1900”, Journal for the History of Astronomy, 38 (2007), 459–475.
The Musée de la Lunette [1] is a museum of eyeglasses located in Morez (Jura - Franche-Comté), France. [2] It was formerly located in Paris, with the name Musée Pierre Marly - Lunettes et Lorgnettes. [3] The museum was created by Pierre Marly, optician to crowned heads, public figures and celebrities.
The lunette was taken, quickly recaptured by a counterattack and then taken again. In the late evening, French engineers connected the lunette to the third parallel via a provisional communication trench. [16] Part of the defences of the city were permanent tunnels that had been dug under the marl plateau to the west.
The principal effort of the French concentrated on the bastions Coehoorn and Pucelle. Facing the French trench lines, the sides of Coehoorn were flanked on its right by the ravelin Antwerpen and on its left the ravelin Diden. Between the bastion and Antwerpen was the lunette Holland and between the bastion and Diden was the lunette Zealand.