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Description: | JAMES SHORT LONDON 222/899 = 9.4 (engraved on the end of the body tube). L.O.110 (old departmental catalogue number in aluminium paint). L2 (old departmental catalogue number in black cellire). 79-80 (old departmental catalogue number in red cellire). 87b ((old departmental catalogue number in red paint on a white roundel ). MANU SHORT,James 1754 Surry-Street, The Strand, London, England DES after GREGORY,James 1661 Aberdeenshire, Scotland DES after DIGGES,Leonard. circa 1550 Wooten Court, Kent, England. This pillar mouted Gregorian two and seven-eighth inch aperture reflecting telescope was used in the University before the establishment of the Macfarlane observatory. The pillar screws into the lid of the telescopes storage box which acts as a stand. It was the two-hundred and twenty-second Gregorian telescope built by james Short and the eight-hundred and ninety-ninth telescope that he had built. The red cellire numbers indicate that the instrument was part of the Kelvin bequest but the numbers were allocated to two large lenses with focal lengths of about 8 or 9 feet which must have been stored in the box. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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