Maker: Burlini, Biasio

Year: 1750 c.

Year Range: -

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Manufacturing Location: Venice, Italy

Signature: BIASIO BURLINI PROFESSOR VENEZIA

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No stand present.

Collection: Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes

Accession #: LC 68

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. #73.

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. #68.

Public Notes:

Drawtubes made of pasteboard. "Main tube covered with brown coloured paper. Three drawtubes covered with so called kleisterpapier(‘paste paper’). Ferrules made of horn and ditto end pieces. Length 33-83 cm, Ø 4 cm. Signed with a difficult readable stamp: ‘BIASIO BURLINI PROFESSOR VENEZIA’. In the centre of the stamp stands the hardly readable text: ‘ARCHI / MEDE’. Middle of the eighteenth century" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013).

Length (open): 830

Length (closed): 330

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Objective type: singlet

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Materials: horn, paper, pasteboard

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