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2558 V.33 Terrestrial telescope Beginning of the eighteenth century Unsigned Cardboard, leather Length 1640 mm |
Description Terrestrial telescope consisting of six sections. The tubes are made of cardboard; the largest is covered with green leather decorated with lilies, the others with white leather. The composite eyepiece, contained in the first and second largest tubes, consists of three lenses showing a green tint. The objective, now missing, was contained in the smallest section. Some tubes contain diaphragms. It is a typical terrestrial telescope of the late seventeenth century or beginning of the eighteenth, almost certainly of English manufacture. |
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