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Title: Hand held solar viewer with dark glass filter [Go to resource]
Description: Hand held solar viewer with dark glass filter and lignum vitae wood mount and turned handle, probably English, mid to late 18th century. Scratched inscriptions for, '1854' and '28 May 1900' suggests it has been used to view solar eclipses on these dates. License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ Subjects: solar filter
solar eclipseTemporal: 1750-1799 Source: Science Museum Identifier: 2000-1231 Go to resource More Like this...
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