Maker: Campi, Giovanni Battista

Year: 1769

Year Range: -

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Manufacturing Location: Genoa, Italy

Signature: 1769 - Gio Batt Campi Genova

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No stand present.

Collection: Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes

Accession #: LC 74

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.90. #79.

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.94. #74.

Public Notes:

"Italian telescope made by Giovanni Battista Campi. Main tube covered with black sharkskin. Five pasteboard drawtubes covered with so called kleisterpapier(‘paste paper’). Ferrules made of horn and wooden end pieces. Length 35-120 cm, Ø 4.5 cm. Signed on the lens: ‘1769 – Gio Batt Campi Genova’.

Giovanni Battista Campi worked in the 1760s in Genoa. He also made telescopes dated 1761 and 1764. Cf. Vecchio (1995)" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013).

Length (open): 1200

Length (closed): 350

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Objective type: singlet

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Materials: pasteboard, sharkskin, wood, glass

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