[unknown maker], 1690
Hevelius, Johannes. Firmamentum Sobiescianum, sive Uranographia Arrow right Arrow left
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photo - whole telescope
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Year: 1690

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No stand present.

Collection: Hevelius, Johannes. Firmamentum Sobiescianum, sive Uranographia

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Inga Elmqvist Soderlund, Taking Possession of Astronomy: Frontispieces and Illustrated Title Pages in 17th-Century Books on Astronomy (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2010), 271. Held at the Library of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at Stockholm University Library.

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Illustration after the dedication to Jan Sokieski III, King of Poland. Nearly identical to illustration after dedication to Louis XIV in Machina coelestis. Refracting telescope and polemoscope visible among astronomical instruments at bottom of image.

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