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Terrestrial telescope
Terrestrial telescope consisting of six cardboard tubes, covered with paper of various colors. The largest tube contains the eyepiece, the smallest contains the objective. All the lenses are biconvex. The fourth tube is not original. The instrument's magnification is c. 10. This is a typical telescope [...]
Creator
- Europeana
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)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Rights
- © Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Creation date
- first half 18th cent.
- 1750
- 1701
Places
- English or German?
Identifier
- urn:imss:instrument:405031
Extent
- length 1140 mm
Language
- eng
- ita
Is part of
- Medici collections
References
- http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/indepth/Lens.html
Year
- 1701
- 1750
Providing country
- Italy