Telescope

Description

Reflecting telescope with brass barrel with blackened shagreen cover, in a fitted rosewood box, by Edward Scarlett, London, c. 1730

Museum reference

T.1968.75

Collection

History of Science

Object name

Telescope, Box

Production information

Scarlett, Edward, c. 1688 - 1743, Scientific instrument maker
London, England, Northern Europe

Date

c. 1730

Materials

Brass, Shagreen, Rosewood

Physical description

Brass barrel, blackened shagreen cover, rosewood box

Associations

George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1683 - 1760

Exhibitions

• Reflecting Telescopes (25 Mar 2016 - 28 Aug 2016)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Earth in Space (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Clifton, Gloria, Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851, London, 1995, pp 244-5

Millburn, John R., 'Instrument makers and the Royal Arms' in Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, No 28 (1991), pp 2-7

Simpson, A.D.C., 'James Gregory and the Reflecting Telescope' in Journal for the History of Astronomy 23 (1992), pp 77-92

On display

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