Galileo's Telescope (Replica)
notes: label: Description
content: This replica of a refracting telescope made and used by Galileo in the early seventeenth century is copied from an original in the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza (now the Museo Galileo) in Florence, Italy. The brown paper tube is 50 inches long, and 2.5 inches maximum diameter.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.315385
label: catalog number
content: 315385
label: accession number
content: 219196
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telescope, refracting (replica)
label: Object Name
content: telescope, (replica)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 127 cm x 64 cm; 50 in x 25 3/16 in