Telescope.
Fontana, Francesco, 1580-1656. **E,229.16
Novae ccelestivm, terrestrivmq rervm observationes ... a Fran-
cisco Fontana, specillis 4 se inventis et ad summam perfectionem perductis, edit.
— Neapoli...apud Gaffarum. M.DC.XLVI. (6), 10, (4), 11-
151, (1) pp. Portrait. Plates. Engraved title-page. 21cm., in
4s. , — The author ascribes to Porta the first use of lenses in pairs, and to him- self the invention of the telescope and the microscope, as well as the
discovery of the “canals” on Mars.
This card was printed at the Boston raaee) Public Library, June 12, 1924.
M8928 — Microscope. — Telescope. — Astronomy. — Mars. The planet.