It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read The Great Melbourne Telescope by Richard Gillespie
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Erected at Melbourne Observatory in 1869, the telescope was the second largest in the world, designed to explore the nature of the nebulae in the southern skies. Richard Gillespie, head of the History and Technology department at the Melbourne museum has written an entertaining account of the telescope’s extraordinary history and tells the story through an amazing cast of characters whose lives intersected with the telescope.
The Great Melbourne Telescope by Richard Gillespie is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.
This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read The Great Melbourne Telescope aloud.
The Great Melbourne Telescope is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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