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Code 7835
EUR 800.00
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1710003370Code 7835 Antique TelescopeRound section brass telescope with handle covered in Galuchat tanned rayskin and focussed with three extensions. English manufacture from the second half of the 19th century. Maximum length 40.3 cm, 15.9 inches, minimum 15 cm, - 5.9 inches, focal diameter 3 cm - 1.2 inches. In good condition, fully functional and complete with custom-made wooden and brass support base.
To focus the telescope you need to extend it completely and then slowly shorten the last extension, the smallest one, until the image is in focus.
Galuchat is tanned shark or ray skin and due to its high cost it has always been used to cover prestigious objects. It takes its name from its first user in the service of Louis XV, Jean Claude Galuchat who died in 1774.
According to legend, one unspecified day in 1608 the children of Hans Lipperhey, who was an eyeglass maker from Middelburg, were playing with lenses in their father's workshop. When one of the sons placed a concave lens near his eye, holding a convex lens in the other hand, and holding out his arm towards the tip of the bell tower of the cathedral, looked through it, he saw the weathercock that was on the top grow bigger and get closer. . Having immediately shown the phenomenon to his father, he fixed the lenses on a board to make observation easier, thus creating the first rudimentary telescope. Unfortunately for Lipperhey, however, when he presented a patent request for this instrument to the States General, within a few days other Dutch eyeglass makers also claimed the invention.
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