Refracting Telescope, English, c. 1690 | |||||||||||
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Object is on display. | |||||||||||
Inventory Number: | 23976 | ||||||||||
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Place Created: | England United Kingdom Europe |
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Accession Number: | 1925-43 | ||||||||||
Brief Description: | A 12-ft refracting telescope; English. Undated and unsigned; c.1690. Pasteboard tubes, white vellum covering with gold tooling, eye-piece mounted in lignum vitae. The Huygenian eyepiece consists of two lenses, the first (star-side) one of which is loose (with its split ring fastener). The objective lens and mount are missing, | ||||||||||
Provenance: | Lent by Christ Church, Oxford in 1925. | ||||||||||
Collection Group: | Orrery Collection | ||||||||||
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