- Star Tales - Telescopium (ianridpath.com)
One of the faint and obscure constellations of the southern sky introduced by the Frenchman Nicolas Louis de Lacaille after his sky-mapping trip to the Cape of Good Hope in 1751–52. It was originally called le Telescope on Lacaille’s first planisphere published in 1756 but was Latinized to Telescopium on the second edition of 1763.
- History of Frederick II of Russia Called Frederick Great (archive.org)
IN April 1945, in the fastness of the Führerbunker in the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Goebbels read aloud to Hitler from the latter’s favorite book, Carlyle’s Frederick the Great. What he read were those pages dealing with the desperate and, apparently, hopeless posture of the Prussian king toward the end of the even Years’ War, just before the sudden and unexpected death of the Czarina Elizabeth which resulted in the elimination of Russia from the alliance against Frederick, and thus his seemingly miraculous salvation. Goebbels reported that “tears stood in the Führer’s eyes” during this reading. When Franklin D. Roosevelt died, a few days later, Hitler thought that another, similar miracle was about to occur. But the analogy proved to be inexact. By the end of April both Hitler and Goebbels were dead, and the thousand-year Reich had collapsed.
- Telescopium (Wikipedia)
Telescopium is a minor constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere, one of twelve named in the 18th century by French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille and one of several depicting scientific instruments. Its name is a Latinized form of the Greek word for telescope. Telescopium was later much reduced in size by Francis Baily and Benjamin Gould.
