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Terrestrial telescope
Terrestrial telescope consisting of eight cardboard tubes. The largest is covered with green leather with gold tooling and contains the biconvex objective lens, 47 mm in diameter. The lens is signed by the maker (Giuseppe Campani) and inserted in a boxwood mount. The other tubes are covered with red [...]
Creator
- Giuseppe Campani
Publisher
- Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Type of item
- Refracting telescope
- telescopes
Providing institution
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
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- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Rights
- © Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Creation date
- ca. 1664
- 1664~
- 1664~
- 1664
- 1664
Identifier
- urn:imss:instrument:405024
Extent
- length 2250 mm
Language
- eng
- ita
Is part of
- Medici collections
References
- http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/biography/FerdinandIIMediciGrandDukeTuscany.html
Year
- 1664
Providing country
- Italy