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

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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