Place, Francis, 1676 c.
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photo - whole telescope
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Maker: Place, Francis

Year: 1676 c.

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No stand present.

Collection: Pepys, Samuel, London & Westminster

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Dava Sobel and William J. H. Andrews, The Illustrated Longitude: the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time (Walker, 1998), p. 41. Held in Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge.

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An astronomer observers through a long refracting telescope mounted and pointed through a window, supported by a ladder.

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