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Round section brass telescope with mahogany wood handle 1850s
$1,137.53
£840.88
€950
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Round-section brass telescope with mahogany wood handle, three-extension focus, complete with dust cap. English manufacture of the mid-19th century. Maximum length cm 43, inches 16.9, minimum cm 15.8,- inches 6.2 focal diameter cm 3.5 - inches 1.4.
Good condition, fully functional and complete with custom-made wood and brass base plate.
The last photo is the gift box.
According to legend, one unspecified day in 1608 the children of Hans Lipperhey, who was an eyeglass maker in Middelburg , were playing in their father's workshop with lenses. When one of the sons put a concave lens next to his own eye, holding a convex lens in his other hand, and reaching out his arm in the direction of the tip of the cathedral bell tower he looked through it, he saw the wind-marking rooster at the top grow larger and closer. Immediately showing the phenomenon to his father, he fixed the lenses on a plank to make observation easier, thus creating the first rudimentary telescope. Unfortunately for Lipperhey, however, when he submitted a patent application for this instrument to the states general, within days other Dutch eyeglass makers also claimed the invention.
- Dimensions:Height: 16.9 in (42.93 cm)Diameter: 1.4 in (3.56 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:1850
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Milan, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1020243509872
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