Loft, Matt, 1725 c.+25
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Photo

photo - whole telescope
Basic Info

Maker: Loft, Matt

Year: 1725 c.+25

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Manufacturing Location: England

Signature: Matt Loft

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No stand present.

Collection: Coll. Willach

Accession #: RW 107 [48] [2005 31] [2023]

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Project investigation

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Brass rings or cells, sliders. Ivory with brass. Signed on glass. Loft's only known signed refractor. Galilean. Very small field of view. Nearly impossible to see anything.

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Optical Basics

Objective type: singlet

Optical style galilean

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Materials: pasteboard, shagreen, glass, ivory, brass, horn

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