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Telescope
    • Setting:
      Room IX
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Italian
    • Date:
      first half 18th cent.
    • Materials:
      cardboard, wood
    • Dimensions:
      length 650 mm
    • Inventory:
      3090
    • Telescope (Inv. 3090)
    • Telescope (Inv. 3090)

Telescope consisting of three cardboard tubes, the largest of which is covered with brown leather with gold tooling. The eyepiece and the objective are missing. The objective was lodged in the largest tube, the eyepiece in the smallest. This configuration was typical of the Italian telescopes built between the mid-seventeenth and late eighteenth centuries.

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