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Spectroscope
    • Setting:
      Room XIV
    • Maker:
      Giovanni Battista Amici
    • Place:
      Italy
    • Date:
      first half 19th cent.
    • Materials:
      brass
    • Dimensions:
      height 545 mm
    • Inventory:
      1394
    • Spectroscope (Inv. 1394)

Direct-vision spectroscope produced by Giovanni Battista Amici. It is made of brass and painted black. It was one of the devices that could be applied to the focal plane of the Amici I telescope (inv. 3795).