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Brass round-section ground astronomical telescope France circa 1870
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Astronomical round-section brass ground astronomical telescope with single-elongation focusing and rack and pinion, with researcher viewfinder, complete with oak rack stand and original walnut case containing the optical part. Good condition reinforced brass tube with optics, fully functional. French manufacture of the second half of the nineteenth century.
Maximum tripod height cm 160 - inch 63, maximum scope length cm 153 - inch 60, focal diameter cm 9.5 inch 3.8. Case size cm 117x23x17 - inch 46x9x6.7
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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 optical approach instrument. 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.
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