frindle2
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Hello. What does 'gentleman amateurs' mean in the context below? Does it mean 'beginners in photography who take pictures as a hobby'?
(In the story, the father and son plan to enter the photograph in a contest. The father said the best “lunar picture” would win a cash prize of fifty dollars and be exhibited by the Royal Astronomical Society at the Great London Exhibition of 1862.)
"First of all, a person would need a big telescope, at least six or seven feet long. Maybe longer. The kind Foucault presented to the Academy of Sciences a few years back. With silvered glass for the reflector. Not speculum, mind you, which is what most of these so-called gentleman amateurs still use.
Source: Pony by R. J. Palacio
(In the story, the father and son plan to enter the photograph in a contest. The father said the best “lunar picture” would win a cash prize of fifty dollars and be exhibited by the Royal Astronomical Society at the Great London Exhibition of 1862.)
"First of all, a person would need a big telescope, at least six or seven feet long. Maybe longer. The kind Foucault presented to the Academy of Sciences a few years back. With silvered glass for the reflector. Not speculum, mind you, which is what most of these so-called gentleman amateurs still use.
Source: Pony by R. J. Palacio