Several transparent medias do at some extend, made the light to bend, to slow the speed of light to a certain degree -or refracts-); water, paper, glycerin, immersion oil, glass (crown), glass (flint), zircon, diamond, lead sulfide
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Infrared the answer is a refracting telescope :p
Practically all telescopes which use lenses, normally the refracting type. the Reflector use objective Concave Mirrors, but even these need eyepieces or finder scopes.
Refractors use a concave lens to refract the light rays through the main body, off the rectangular prism and into the eyepiece. These telescopes use no mirrors like reflectors (except the triangular prism contains a small mirror but a triangular prism is optional)
Isaac Newton used a refracting telescope and calculus, which he invented to map the orbits.
use mirrors instead of lenses
A refracting telescope is a type of telescope that has a large thin lense at the front and a smaller thicker lense at the end where the eyepiece is. Refracting telescopes use lenses unlike reflecting telescopes that use mirrors to reflect the light. This is a good image of a refracting and reflecting telescope: [See related link]
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Yes, both of them. And they also use reflecting telescopes.
Refracting
reflecting and refracting telescopes
They use refracting and reflecting telescopes technique is they use the parallax methods
Infrared the answer is a refracting telescope :p
It bends the light with lenses and mirrors, so your answer would be yes.
Practically all telescopes which use lenses, normally the refracting type. the Reflector use objective Concave Mirrors, but even these need eyepieces or finder scopes.
That telescope you are refering to is called a refracting telescope.
-- A refracting telescope must have a lens, otherwise it's not a refracting telescope. -- A reflecting telescope can be constructed without any lens, but if you intend to look through it, then you'll use a little lens for the eyepiece.