But the price which the optician demanded seemed more than Herschel thought he could or ought to give.
"The Story of the Heavens"
Robert Stawell Ball
The gear, though rough, was very strong and solid, and afforded more range and firmer rest to the seven-feet tube and adjustments than a costly mounting by a London optician would have been likely to supply.
"Springhaven A Tale of the Great War"
R. D. Blackmore
The wildness of the theories hitherto proposed by him, on his own discoveries, seems to authorize us to consider his merit as that of a good optician only.
"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson