John Braithwaite, who has died aged 68, was the last maker of astronomical telescopes in Scotland, but there was a great deal more to him than that. He was also an adviser to David Hockney, a former parliamentary candidate, a musician, an expert on Galileo, a pirate radion DJ and the builder of the first astronomically aligned stone circle in Britain for 3000 years.
John Braithwaite
Telescope maker;
Born: January 29, 1945; Died: February 5, 2012.
John Braithwaite, who has died aged 68, was the last maker of astronomical telescopes in Scotland, but there was a great deal more to him than that. He was also an adviser to David Hockney, a former parliamentary candidate, a musician, an expert on Galileo, a pirate radion DJ and the builder of the first astronomically aligned stone circle in Britain for 3000 years.
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