Signature:
FECIT CANON: SABRD VICENSIS / FERDINANDUS CZADECZKY
Signature Notes:
Inscriptions:
No stand present.
Collection:
Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes
Accession #:
LC 88
Sources:
Cocquyt, Tiemen. "400 Years of Telescopes" booklet, Zeeuws Museum, 2008. Item 13.
Louwman, P.J.K., and Zuidervaart, H.J., "A Certain Instrument to See Far: Four Centuries of Styling the Telescope Illustrated by a Selection of Treasures from the Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes". Wassenaar, 2009. p.96-97. #93.
Louwman, P.J.K., and Zuidervaart, H.J., "A Certain Instrument for Seeing Far: Four Centuries of Styling the Telescope Illustrated by a Selection of Treasures from the Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes". Wassenaar, 2013. p.99. #88.
Public Notes:
"Tubes of pasteboard. Main tube covered with dark leather, with blind tooling. Fittings made of wood. Six drawtubes, covered with decorated paper. The signature is stamped on the main tube: ‘FECIT CANONI: SABRD VICENSIS’ and: ‘FERDINANDUS CZADECZKY’. Maximum length 111 cm, Ø 5.5 cm. Late seventeenth century .
The mathematician Ferdinand Czadeczky of Chotiessow lived in 1676 in the Praemonstratenzer cloister ‘Monasterii Zabrdovicensis’. (Nowadays Zábrdovice is a part of the city of Brno in the Czech Republic). He had a profound interest in astronomy . In 1715 for instance Czadeczky engraved a celestial tableau calculated for the polar height of Brno. A few years before (in 1709) he had started an annually published almanach, called Titular-Kalender, containing astronomical information. This almanach was continued to be published far into the 18th century (Golvers, Verbiest, 2003, 416-417). In 1715 Czadeczky moved to Prague, where he lived as a ‘Prämonstratenser Chorher’" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013).
Dioptrice is made possible by the generous
support of the National Science Foundation, the National
Endowment for the Humanities, the Program in the History and
Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame, and the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum.
