- Subject
- Telescopes
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- James Wilson
- Provenance
- Lent by Christ Church, Oxford in 1925.
- Primary inscriptions
- Object-glass signed, "Jac: Wilson Londini fecit".
- Object type
- Telescope
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 11cm Width: 183.5cm Weight: 4.2kg
- Inventory No
- 29920
- Accession Number
- 1925-43
Description
English 9-foot refractor telescope, undated, c. 1700.
Wood, vellum, glass, brass.
Object-glass signed, "Jac: Wilson Londini fecit"; undated.
The trunnions are 90mm apart, and fit the supports on the associated tripod.
