Maker: Unknown

Year: 1700 c.+25

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No stand present.

Collection: Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes

Accession #: LC 195

Sources:

Tiemen Cocquyt, "400 Years of Telescopes" booklet, Zeeuws Museum, 2008. Item 33.

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.159. #195.

Public Notes:

Telescope made from horn of African rhinoceros. Case of cardboard and shark skin.

"Small spyglass made of horn from the African rhinoceros. In a conical casing covered with green coloured ray skin. Length 5 cm, Ø 2 cm. Unsigned. First quarter of the eighteenth century" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013).

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Length (closed): 50

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Objective type: singlet

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Physical style spyglass

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Materials: horn, rayskin

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