Terrestrial hand telescope
- maker:
- Joseph Howe and John Huggins
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Terrestrial hand telescope, 6-draw, vellum body, stamped originally in gold, wooden mounts, by Howe, signed:- Jo. HOWE/LONDINI/FECIT, c.1680. cap for Object Glass and wooden eyepiece tube lacking, length closed 1ft, 1 3/8 inch, eye lens mount cracked and piece missing, Object Glass mount cracked, and piece missing; all four lenses in good order
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- Category:
- Optics
- Object Number:
- 1928-675
- Measurements:
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overall (closed): x 340 mm x , 55 mm, .24kg
- credit:
- Woolverton, C.N.
