Telescope Micrometer Eyepiece, English, c. 1710 | |||||||||||
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Inventory Number: | 22318 | ||||||||||
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Place Created: | England United Kingdom Europe |
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Accession Number: | 1925-43 | ||||||||||
Brief Description: | English micrometer eyepiece for a telescope. Lignum vitae, brass, and silvered brass. Unsigned and undated; c.1710. This is probably the earliest surviving micrometer eyepiece for a telescope. It was used with the large refractor Inv 18872 (Orrery Collection16), | ||||||||||
Provenance: | Lent by Christ Church, Oxford in 1925. | ||||||||||
Collection Group: | Orrery Collection | ||||||||||
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