...hundred thousand dollars for the purpose of purchasing land and constructing and putting up on such land a powerful telescope (superior to and more powerful than any telescope ever made)." expenditures incurred by the trustees for legal services rendered for the express benefit of...

...pianos and enthusiast for astronomy. On his death in 1 876, he left a bequest of $700 000 to build 'a powerful telescope, superior to and more powerful than any telescope ever yet made . . . and also a suitable observatory connected therewith'. The observatory was constructed on Mount...

...the party of the first part, a powerful telescope, superior to and more powerful than any telescope yet made, with all the machinery appertaining thereto and appropriately connected therewith, or that is necessary and convenient to the most powerful telescope now in use, or suited to one more...

...and maintaining the telescope to be constructed under the Lick deed of trust, and required to be " superior to, and more powerful than, any telescope ever yet made." With such an instrument in such a field wonderful discoveries may be made. The only limit to the size of...

...pianos and an enthusiast for astronomy who, on his death in 1876, left a bequest of $700000 to build 'a powerful telescope, superior to and more powerful than any telescope ever yet made . . . and also a suitable observatory connected therewith'. The observatory was constructed on Mount...

...Observatory were particularly interesting. Shortly after James Lick had provided for the construction of a telescope "superior to and more powerful than any telescope ever yet made," the president of Mr. Lick's first board of trustees, Mr. DO Mills, visited Washington (in the summer...