Accession No

1005

Brief Description

telescope eye piece, attributed to Christopher Cock, English, 1700 (c)

Origin

England; London

Maker

Cock, Christopher [attributed]

Class

astronomy; optical

Earliest Date

1700

Latest Date

1700

Inscription Date

Material

glass; wood; paper; pasteboard; hide; vellum

Dimensions

length, closed 205 mm

Special Collection

Provenance

On loan from Pembroke College, University of Cambridge from 1951.

Inscription

This drawer at this marke (on each of 2 draw tubes, pasted MS label)
This apperture for Jupiter (on aperture stop, MS label)

Description Notes

Pasteboard outer tube covered with gold-tooled green vellum. Wooden ferrule. Second turned ferrule (threaded to fit main telescope tube?) Two pasteboard draw tubes covered with white vellum. Playing card pasted inside one. One bound with tooled green vellum strip, the other has turned wooden ferule and mount for two lenses. Brass retaining clip. Turned wooden screw-on eyestop. Paper aperture stop (in file).
fair condition

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