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Terrestrial telescope
Terrestrial telescope consisting of seven tubes. The tubes, made of cardboard, are covered with green leather (now faded) with gold tooling. The biconvex objective lens, held in the smallest tube, has a diameter of 30 mm, an aperture of 20 mm and a focal length of 1,070 mm. The eyepiece lens, now missing, [...]
Creator
- Jacques Tendre de Moulina
Publisher
- Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Type of item
- Refracting telescope
- telescopes
Providing institution
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- 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
- French?
Identifier
- urn:imss:instrument:405037
Extent
- length 1470 mm
Language
- eng
- ita
Is part of
- Medici collections
References
- http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/indepth/Aperture.html
Year
- 1701
- 1750
Providing country
- Italy