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Description: | Hunterian Museum G.1986.139(1) (catalogue number typed on a self adhesive label, removed). DES after GALILEI,Galileo. 1609 Padua, Italy. DES after LIPPERSHEIM,Hans or Jan circa 1608 Middelburg, Netherlands. DES possibly after JANSEN, Zacharias. circa 1590 Middelburg, Netherlands. DES after DIGGES, Leonard. circa 1550 Wooten Court, Kent, Engla This is a reading telescope for use in conjunction with a polariscope or polarimeter GLAHM 129198. It was probably used to check the position, in the subjects eye, of a beam of light when examing for anomalies in the eye. It has an achromatic lens system and the image is inverted as in an astronomical telescope. When the vernier box is removed from the polariscope the telescope can be used to view the nicol prism directly. | 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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