Three Wooden Tubes from a Long Refracting Telescope, English, Early 18th Century

Inventory Number 21640

Subject: Telescopes
Item type: Object
Provenance: Possibly part of donation of astronomical and meterological from the Radcliffe Observatory by the the Radcliffe Trustees
Physical material: Glass; Wood; Copper Alloy
Object type: Telescope
Inventory No: 21640
Accession Number: ?1933-23/24

Three wooden tubes from a long refracting telescope, which would have been fitted together to form a single long telescope.