Maker: Mur, Christian [attributed]

Year: 1675 c.+25

Year Range: -

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Manufacturing Location: Germany

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No stand present.

Collection: Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes

Accession #: LC 85

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.95-96. #90.

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.98. #85.

Public Notes:

"(Presumably) German telescope with tubes made of pasteboard. The main tube is covered with green coloured parchment. Six drawtubes covered with kleisterpapier(‘paste paper’). Endfittings made of wood. Length 65-197 cm, Ø 8 cm. Unsigned, but attributed to Christian Mur, working at Freising(in the Augsburg area). An instrument resembling this telescope, marked: ‘M.R’ is in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich (NAV1546). Presumably made in the last quarter of the seventeenth century" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013).

Length (open): 1970

Length (closed): 650

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Objective type: singlet

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Materials: parchment, pasteboard, wood

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