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Round section brass telescope with slightly splayed shape of 1870s
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Round-section brass telescope with a slightly splayed shape and leather-covered handle, English manufacture in the second half of the 19th century Mass fire with two extensions. Maximum length 60 cm, inches 23.6, minimum cm 34.,7,- inches 13.6, focal diameter cm 4 - inches 1.7. Good condition, signs of wear on the leather of the handle, fully functional and complete with custom-made wood and brass stand base.
To bring the scope into focus, you have to stretch it all the way out and then slowly shorten the last stretch, the smaller one, until the image is in focus.
Curiosity
Secondo la leggenda, un giorno imprecisato del 1608 i figli di Hans Lipperhey, che era un occhialaio di Middelburg , stavano giocando nel laboratorio del padre con delle lenti. 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.
Galilei never claimed the invention of the telescope, but della Porta, feeling defrauded of the invention, wrote in a letter to Federico Cesi in 1609: "...of the secret of the telescope I have seen it et it is a coglioneria, et it is taken from my book IX De Refractione..." Indirectly disproving della Porta, when Galilei showed the telescope to some senators of the Venetian Republic, the astonishment it aroused was enormous.
The last photo is the gift box.
- Dimensions:Height: 23.6 in (59.95 cm)Diameter: 1.7 in (4.32 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:1870
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Milan, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1020238878062
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