Cooke Telescope Tales - Drawings of the Sun by Frederick Brodie in 1865

In the classic handbook of Descriptive Astronomy by G F Chanbers there are drawings  from October 1865 showing a Great Sun Spot. The drawings were made  by Frederick Brodie from his observatory at Uckfield in Sussex using  an 8.5 inch Cooke

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