A very, very peculiar telescope of the 1610s
History and Philosophy of Physics
2024-03-06 v1
Abstract
A re-examination of a well-known iconographic source, the "Allegory of Sight" by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens, reveals that one of the two telescopes depicted in the painting has a highly unusual,and until now unknown to the historians of the telescope, particularity.
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@article{arxiv.2403.02857,
title = {A very, very peculiar telescope of the 1610s},
author = {Paolo Del Santo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.02857},
year = {2024}
}