Historical Galileo Telescope
Ex Tax: £15.00
Perfected in 1609 by Galileo Galilei, the telescope invented the year before in Holland, he pointed it at the starry sky. His discoveries - craters on the moon, crescent phases of Venus, moons around Jupiter - was a scientific sensation and established a new astronomy, which still shapes our world view.
This historically faithful card replica you can most directly relive the great explorer Galileo's performance, which is modest by today's standards of optical performance.
The kit of suitable size and optical properties of the telescopes of that time and based on the only surviving telescope that can be attributed to Galileo with certainty, the oldest telescope in the world. The original was made from leather with a decorated gold embossing ceremonial copy of Cosimo II de Medici, (12 May 1590 - 28 February 1621) who ruled as Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1609 to 1621.
Kit from stamped sheets of cardboard, 4-color process plus gold , complete with glass lenses for 12x magnification and a wall or table mount . Length: 78 cm.
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