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1636027171Code 7091 Antique spyglassBrass telescope with mahogany-coated handle, focusing with three extensions, complete with sunshade extension, cap and dust flap. Maximum length 83.5 cm - 32.8 inches, minimum 27 cm - 10.6 inches, focal diameter 4.5 cm - 1.7 inches. English manufacture of the early 19th century. In excellent condition, fully functional, complete with base for support made to measure in wood and brass.
The legend says that a day in 1608 sons of an optician in the Dutch town of Middelburg were playing with lenses made by their father in laboratory. When one of them put a concave lens near his eye keeping a convex lens in the other hand, and stretched his arm to the bell-tower of cathedral, he saw the weather-cock on the point to become bigger and nearer. He showed this fact to his father: he fixed lenses with the right distance on a small board, making the observation more simple, creating the first instrument for optical approaching; then this instrument was perfected changing the small board into a cardboard pipe that eliminated that external light making possible to see the framed objects more clearly.
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