Collection Item: Telescope
Basic info
- Collection
- Social History
- Object name
- Telescope
- Object category
- Working life
- Object subcategory
- Engineering
- Creators
- Sharp, Abraham (Scientific instrument maker)
- Description
- A double refracting wooden telescope on an equatorial mount. The telescope consists of a square wooden tube. Below the main telescope is a smaller sighting telescope. The telescope is inclined in altazimuth by a brass quadrant which has angles numbered on it. The quadrant is supported on a horizontal wood and brass numbered ring around which the telescope rotates and inclines to the vertical. There is a middle supporting structure made of iron. The whole structure is mounted on a mahogany support carved with acanthus decoration on its three legs and body.
- Production date start
- 1650
- Production date end
- 1750
- Period
- Stuart
- Commonwealth
- Restoration
- William and Mary
- Queen Anne
- Georgian
Identification
- Object number
- YORYM : 2012.106
- Number of objects
- 1
- ID
- 45028129
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Wood (Telescope)
- Brass (Quadrant)
- Wood (Quadrant support)
- Brass (Quadrant support)
- Iron (material) (Central support)
- Mahogany (Mount)
- Dimensions
- Whole height 168.5 cm
- Whole width 90.0 cm
- Whole depth 180.5 cm
Production
- Creators
- Sharp, Abraham (Scientific instrument maker)
