Perspective Glass Telescope, English, c. 1725 | |||||||||||
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| Inventory Number: | 28955 | ||||||||||
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| Place Created: | London England United Kingdom Europe |
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| Accession Number: | 1925-43 | ||||||||||
| Brief Description: | English 1-draw perspective glass. Pasteboard, covered with green gold-tooled vellum; ivory lens mounts and caps. Unsigned and undated: c.1725. This perspective glass, or small telescope, has a concave eye-lens, as used in the telescope invented by Galileo in 1609, and now used in opera-glasses. | ||||||||||
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| Provenance: | Lent by Christ Church, Oxford in 1925. | ||||||||||
| Collection Group: | Orrery Collection | ||||||||||
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