Sextant with telescopic sights
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                                4 February 1685
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Unknown, Artist
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                vol10 p21
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (page): 308mm
width (page): 178mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (page): 178mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Diagram of a sextant with telescopic sights used to observe a lunar eclipse by Francesco Bianchini, in a letter to John Flamsteed from Rome.
This is a copy of LBO/10/016.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            This is a copy of LBO/10/016.
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