
I remember R T Jones telling us that the primary mirror
was first figured to be a good sphere.
Then the correcting lens was placed just in front of it for
testing at the radius of curvature.
With the correcting lens in place the combined pair were
tested as if they were a single paraboloid.
In that way the correcting lens was figured.
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