Widman, Daniel
Scheiner, Christoph, Rosa ursina sive sol Arrow right Arrow left
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photo - whole telescope
Basic Info

Maker: Widman, Daniel

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Year Range: 1626-1630

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No stand present.

Collection: Scheiner, Christoph, Rosa ursina sive sol

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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. 341. Held at National Library of Sweden.

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Light shines through a large mounted refracting telescope to project an image of the Sun. A second, smaller refracting telescope sits unused below the first.

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Objective type: unconfirmed

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