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2122012111852734Code 2738 Antique telescope 1800Antique brass telescope, French manufacture middle of XIX century, with wooden tripod not original. Focusing with one extension and rack. This instrument has walnut box with telescope inside, cm 93 - inches 36.61. Very good condition. Maximum length cm 130 - inches 51.18, minimum length cm 90 - inches 35.43, focal diameter cm 7 - inches 2.75, height cm 170 - inches 66.9.
It's an antique astronomical instrument; Galilei never said that telescope was an invention of him, but Della Porta, feeling defrauded of this invention, in a letter to Federico Cesi wrote that telescope was a stupid and simple thing and he had just spoken about it in his work De Refractione. But when Galilei showed the telescope to some senators of the Venice Republic the surprise was enormous, but it was small the reward for Galilei: the Republic didn’t buy this telescope because some councillors said that some similar instruments were just sold with lower prices; Galilei obtained simply an increase in salary and the confirmation as teacher in Padua where he taught mathematics.
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