Question

This statement about Newton’s reflecting telescope contains an error. Find the error and REWRITE ONLY THE INCORRECT sentence with the correct information.

Refracting telescopes distort the color of light. Newton thought that refracting telescopes distorted light in the same way that prisms did. Newton also believed that a reflecting telescope would not distort the color, because mirrors do not shift the wavelengths of the incoming light. Through his efforts, Newton created the first reflecting telescope. Light enters the telescope and reflects off a rough convex mirror at the back of the telescope. This light then is reflected to a smooth, flat diagonal mirror, which then reflects the light out to the eyepiece.

Answer 1

Light enters the telescope and reflects off a rough concave mirror at the back of the telescope.

Step-by-step explanation:

The chromatic aberration plaguing the observation early astronomers was studied by Sir, Isaac Newton and found to be created by the passage of light through a lens as such Newton's solution was to simply take out the lens from the telescope and replace them with polished metal mirror.

The reflecting telescope was built by Sir Isaac Newton with a purpose of proving the theory of the spectrum of colors composed in white light.