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Code 7840
EUR 700.00
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1710605109Code 7840 Antique TelescopeBrass telescope with a round section and a slightly splayed shape with a leather-covered handle, English manufacture from the second half of the 19th century. Two-extension focus set. Maximum length 60 cm, 23.6 inches, minimum 34.7 cm - 13.6 inches, focal diameter 4 cm - 1.7 inches. In good condition, signs of wear on the leather of the handle, in perfect working order 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.
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 laboratory. 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.
Galileo never claimed the invention of the telescope, but della Porta, feeling defrauded of the invention, in a letter to Federico Cesi in 1609 wrote: "...I have seen the secret of the telescope and it is an idiot, and it is taken from my book IX De Refractione...". Indirectly contradicting della Porta, when Galileo showed the telescope to some senators of the Republic of Venice, the amazement it aroused was enormous.
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