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Code 8212
EUR 1000.00
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1753881392Code 8212 TelescopeRare round-section cardboard telescope with four extensions and brass rings, German manufacture from the early 19th century. Excellent condition.
Maximum length 95 cm (37.4 in), minimum 27.5 cm (10.9 in), focal length 3 cm (1.2 in).
Complete with a custom-made wooden and brass base.
To focus the telescope, extend it according to the marking on each tube and then slowly shorten the last, smallest extension until the image is in focus.
According to legend, one day in 1608, the children of Hans Lipperhey, an eyeglass maker from Middelburg, were playing with lenses in their father's workshop. When one of the sons placed a concave lens close to his eye, holding a convex lens in the other hand, and stretching his arm toward the top of the cathedral bell tower, he looked through it. He saw the weathercock at the top grow larger and move closer. He immediately showed the phenomenon to his father, who fixed the lenses to a small board to make observation easier, thus creating the first rudimentary telescope.
Galileo never claimed to have invented the telescope, but della Porta, feeling cheated of his invention, wrote in a letter to Federico Cesi in 1609: "...I have seen the secret of the telescope, and it is a piece of nonsense, 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 he caused was enormous.
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