- Subject
- Telescopes
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Dollond
- Provenance
- Presented by the Radcliffe Trustees in 1933. From the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford.
- Object type
- Telescope
- Dimensions
- Height: 3110mm Width: 1300mm Depth: 1400mm
- Inventory No
- 53524
- Accession Number
- 1933-22
Description
An English achromatic telescope by Dollond dated 1774.
The instrument was made to the order of Thomas Hornsby, the first Radcliffe observer, and was part of the original equipment of the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford.
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