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Description: | This instrument unscrews into a number of parts which can be assembled into different optical instruments. It can be used as a telescope, but when the barrel is unscrewed a simple microscope, or flea-glass, is also revealed. Using this, a specimen stuck on a pin (now missing) can be viewed through a small lens. The other accessories include a sundial. This type of multi-purpose object was common around 1700.
AUDIT - item needs marking with its identity number. Five unnumbered part.Contains microscopes of the Pulicare and Sturm type
caption: Flea-glass telescope
caption: Flea-glass telescope - disassembled | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | combined telescopes | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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