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Terrestrial telescope
Terrestrial telescope consisting of five cardboard tubes. The largest, covered with green paper, contains the biconvex objective in a wooden mount. The other tubes are covered with marbled paper. The fifth draw tube contains a small two-part housing for three biconvex lenses forming the compound eyepiece. [...]
Creator
- Europeana
Publisher
- Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Type of item
- Refracting telescope
- telescopes
Providing institution
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Rights
- © Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Creation date
- second half 17th cent.
- 1700
- 1651
Places
- Italian
Identifier
- urn:imss:instrument:405036
Extent
- length 1220 mm
Language
- eng
- ita
References
- http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/indepth/Lens.html
Year
- 1651
- 1700
Providing country
- Italy