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Newtonian telescope
    • Setting:
      Room XIV
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Date:
      18th cent.
    • Materials:
      wood, brass
    • Dimensions:
      length 2500 mm
    • Inventory:
      2709
    • Newtonian telescope (Inv. 2709)

Reflecting telescope of the Newtonian type with an octagonal wooden tube blackened internally. The telescope can perform altitude and azimuth movements by means of metal arcs. The wooden stand has four legs with castors. The focusing mirror, the secondary 45-degree mirror, the eyepiece and the finder are missing.