000-100-102-736-C
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Telescope
This refracting telescope was made in England around 1720. It is unsigned.
The five-draw telescope is covered with vellum and has a wooden eyepiece. The exterior has been dyed in parts green and red, and stamped with book-binding tools and filled with gold leaf.
In 1966, a study of the motifs on 70 English instruments showed that the same book-binding tools were used to decorate instruments signed by different makers. However, the motifs fell into three stylistic - and therefore possibly dating - groups.
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000-100-102-736-C |
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National Museums Scotland |
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0098: National Museums Scotland
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National Museums Scotland T.1976.93 |
| Date: |
Around 1720
c. 1720
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| Material: |
Vellum
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3. ASTRONOMY, Refracting telescopes (Departmental Classification)
22. PHYSICS, Light (Departmental Classification)
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ENGLAND
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| Description: |
Five-draw vellum-covered telescope, unsigned, England, c. 1720
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| References: |
- Turner, G. L'E., 'Decorative Tooling on 17th and 18th Century Microscopes and Telescopes' in Physis: Revista internazionale di storis 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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