[unknown maker], 1619
Scheiner, Christoph, Oculus hoc est fundamentum opticum Arrow right Arrow left
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photo - whole telescope
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Year: 1619

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Collection: Scheiner, Christoph, Oculus hoc est fundamentum opticum

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Inga Elmqvist Soderlund, Taking Possession of Astronomy: Frontispieces and Illustrated Title Pages in 17th-Century Books on Astronomy (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2010), p. 292. Held at Sachsische Landes- Staats- und Universitatsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB).

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Light from the Comprimor exoriens hidden behind a mountain labeled absq oculo passes through a refracting telescope mounted in the wall of a cave to project an image (of the moon?) on the wall. The beams of light are labelled Mox vt superauero rupes, and the image in the cave is labeled Nenio[?] teger in trat.

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