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Year Range: 1673-1674

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Manufacturing Location: China

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Stand present.

Collection: Verbiest, Ferdinand, Yixiang zhi (On Astronomical Instruments)

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Tsuko Nakamura, Astronomers of Edo: Soaring through the Night Sky, figure 2-9, p. 71. Property of the National Archives of Japan.

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Within context of the revised Japanese lunisolar calendar “Horiki Kojutsu Gen-reki”. Five-draw telescope with mount. The hand reaching through the clouds is similar to that in the Chinese “Reidai Gishoshi”.

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