Maker: Belletti, Paulo

Year: 1681

Year Range: -

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Manufacturing Location: Bologna, Italy

Signature: Paulus de Beletis Fecit Anno i6∞i

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No stand present.

Collection: Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes

Accession #: LC 63

Sources:

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.82. #68.

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.87. #63.

Public Notes:

"Main tube covered with dark goat leather with gold tooling. Six drawtubes covered with marbled paper. The two lens caps are made of leather, they have a papier-mâché thread to screw them on the tubes. Length 314 cm, Ø 9 cm, objective lens Ø 5.8 cm, diaphragm Ø 3.4 cm. Magnification 26 times. Signed on diaphragm: ‘Paulus de Beletis Fecit Anno i6∞i’ (= 1681).

The instrument maker Paolo Belletti (also known as Beletti) worked in Bologna in the years 1681-1689. Similar telescopes by Belleti have been described by Turner (1984) and Van Helden (1999), 21, 56-57" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013).

Can also be found under the translated name of Paul Beleti.

Length (open): 3140

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Objective type: singlet

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Materials: leather, paper, glass, gold tooling

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