Maker: Gilbert, J.

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Year Range: 1745-1791

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Manufacturing Location: London, England

Signature: J. GILBERT / Tower Hill / LONDON

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No stand present.

Collection: Coll. Willach

Accession #: RW 071 [12] [2006 43a] [2023]

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Project investigation

Public Notes:

Five lens eyepiece. Crown forward (front lens of achromat) has same surface curvature as Dollond crown lens but the flint lens has a different curvature. Maker might thus have purchased lens from Dollond. After Fraunhofer, eyepiece lenses are calculated surfaces. Before then, makers such as Dollond used trial and error.

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Objective type: doublet (crown forward)

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Physical style polygonal

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Materials: wood, brass, glass

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Eyepieces

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