Solar Eyepiece
date: label: date made
content: mid-nineteenth century
notes: label: Description
content: This incomplete and unmarked instrument seems to be a polarizing solar eyepiece of the sort that was designed by Sigmund Merz in Munich, and sometimes known as a helioscope or helioscopic eyepiece. It came from the Department of Astronomy at Columbia University, and may once have belonged to the New York astronomer, Lewis Morris Rutherfurd.
label: Description
content: Ref: Charles A. Young, <i>The Sun</i> (New York, 1881), p. 64.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Columbia University, Department of Astronomy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.319191
label: accession number
content: 236206
label: catalog number
content: 319191
objectType: label: Object Name
content: solar eyepiece for telescope
label: Object Name
content: solar eyepiece
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 7/8 in x 7 in x 4 1/2 in; 7.3025 cm x 17.78 cm x 11.43 cm