Chapter Six - Mending The Telescope

The Old man from Gloucester agreed to have a look and mend what he could repair./n/nWe deconstructed the dusty telescope, piece by piece, and realised that the lens needed to be changed. An old shop in London managed to get a replacement part for this great lens, made in Bohemian crystal. There was also a special Opal iridescent quartz to change for the reflection – He had never seen such an elaborate system before – and he did mend the Planets' system mechanism./n/nAll spick and span – The old man got emotional when he handed it over to me./nHe also handed me over some documents he found in the box that contained the Telescope – A torn page from the Oxford Sky Map, A manual to build a Rocket and the name **Renate**… our 17th Visionnaire?/n/nNow the telescope is restored, we peek into the vastness of the universe - and what we see is just spectacular./n/n**The 1875 mechanisms built within the Telescope:** The gems systems help reveal the colours of the stars and the galaxies like no modern telescopes can. The show is mind-blowing./n/nWe found some clues from a 19th Century Oxford Star Map that hinted at 17 combinations of planetary settings on the top of the telescope - each setting changing the angle and the focus. What was each time was different; nothing had ever been seen in any books. The button mechanism, embodied by the planets, was, in fact, some preset configuration carefully adjusted./n/nThe Mystery was deepened./n/nRotating, pushing, pulling – each planet and satellite had its own way of being set. So what first looked like a delicate ornament was, in fact, a top precision mechanism./nThe very rough sketches displayed 17 figures – each of them was totally unique. Once the planets were placed carefully, an exemplary mechanism was triggered, adjusting the telescope's position and focus./n17 figures… 17 Visionnaires… incidents happen, but something was sure today – all here was now meant to be, and our destinies are cautiously getting into a march written more than a century ago. Each Set up was attributed to each Visionnaire./n/nThe Quest was on….