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Terrestrial telescope
Terrestrial telescope consisting of nine cardboard tubes. The largest, which contained the objective (missing), is covered with green leather with gilt tooling. The other tubes are covered with red marbled paper. The eyepiece (now missing) was in the smallest tube. The erector survives. It comprises [...]
Creator
- Europeana
Publisher
- Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Type of item
- Refracting telescope
- telescopes
Providing institution
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Rights
- © Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Creation date
- late 17th cent.
- 1700
- 1681
Places
- Italian
Identifier
- urn:imss:instrument:405053
Extent
- length c. 4400 mm
Language
- eng
- ita
Is part of
- Medici collections
References
- http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/indepth/Erector.html
Year
- 1681
- 1700
Providing country
- Italy