The Telescope Maker of Mount Wilson
In 1917, George Ellery Hale stood beneath the newly completed 100-inch Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory in California. For years, he had battled skeptics...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18.
In 1917, George Ellery Hale stood beneath the newly completed 100-inch Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory in California. For years, he had battled skeptics who said a mirror that large could never be ground with sufficient precision. But Hale believed that the God who flung galaxies into the void had also given human hands the patience to polish glass one thousandth of an inch at a time.…
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