Telescope
name: label: maker
content: Cauchoix, Robert Aglae
notes: label: Description
content: This achromatic refracting telescope, with mount designed to be hung on a wall, was made by Robert- Aglaé Cauchoix (1776-1845), an innovative French optician who, in 1814, opened a shop for optical and physical Instruments on Quai de Voltaire, near the Pont Royal, in Paris.
label: Description
content: Ref: <i>Description des Lunettes Murales, construites par M. Cauchoix, Optician, Quai Voltaire à Paris. Avec l'indication des procedes pour s'en servir, et des examples des calculs d'Observations</i> (Paris, 1818).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.318220
label: accession number
content: 233319
label: catalog number
content: 318220
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope
label: Object Name
content: telescope, refracting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 8 in x 25 1/4 in; 11.43 cm x 20.32 cm x 64.135 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall (in closed box): 4 1/4 in x 25 1/4 in x 7 3/4 in; 10.795 cm x 64.135 cm x 19.685 cm