Maker: Burlini, Biasio

Year: 1725 c.25

Year Range: -

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Manufacturing Location: Venice, Italy

Signature: Fera di me Biasio Burlini Professor Venezia

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No stand present.

Collection: Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes

Accession #: LC 67

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.85. #72.

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.90. #67.

Public Notes:

Drawtubes made of pasteboard. "The main tube is covered with polychrome paper with a predominated red colour, on which some floral motifs have been painted. Three light green coloured drawtubes, brass ferrules and ditto end pieces. Length 44-109 cm, Ø 6 cm. Signed on objective lens: ‘Fera di me Biasio Burlini Professor Venezia’, meaning ‘Made by me, Biasio Burlini, professor in Venice’. First half of the eighteenth century" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013).

Length (open): 1090

Length (closed): 440

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Objective type: singlet

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Materials: paper, pasteboard, brass, paint

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