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Image © National Museums Scotland
View full screenFive draw vellum-covered refracting telescope, unsigned, English, c. 1720
T.1976.93
England, Northern Europe
c. 1720
Card; vellum-covered; turned wooden eyepiece and objective end; exterior dyed in parts green and red, stamped with bookbinding tools, and filled with gold leaf
Earth in Space (29 Jul 2011)
National Museum of Scotland
Turner, G. L'E., 'Decorative Tooling on 17th and 18th Century Microscopes and Telescopes' in Physis: Revista internazionale di storia della scienza 8 (1966), pp 99-128; republished in Essays on the History of the Microscope, Oxford, 1980, pp 79-108
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