Reflecting Telescope
Reflecting Telescope
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- Description
- This equatorially mounted telescope, made in Paris around 1860, has a 4-inch aperture silvered-glass primary mirror of the sort proposed by the physicist J. B. L. Foucault. A small printed label on the square wooden tube carries the message “Les Télescopes à mirroir de verre qui se vendent dans la maison SECRETAN portent tous la signature ci-dessous” along with Foucault’s signature. A one-page lithographed “Instruction pour les Télescopes de verre argenté” carries the stamp of Lerebours et Secretan.
- Marc François Louis Secretan was a scientific instrument maker in Paris who worked in partnership with, and then succeeded, Noel-Lean Lerebours.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- telescope, reflecting
- date made
- after 1860
- maker
- Secretan
- place made
- France: Île-de-France, Paris
- Measurements
- overall: 27 3/4 in x 15 7/8 in x 19 1/2 in; 70.485 cm x 40.3225 cm x 49.53 cm
- overall: 19 7/8 in x 15 3/4 in x 25 1/4 in; 50.4825 cm x 40.005 cm x 64.135 cm
- ID Number
- PH.330623
- accession number
- 1979.0889
- catalog number
- 330623
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Science & Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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