This web site
Shows you the
details of building a simple but beautiful
"Galilean " type Telescope
we built for the TV Science Channel TV
Project
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Rhoda a member of the team, Galileo, Rhoda & Jim
with11 out of 24
Galilean " type Telescope's we made.
They can be very beautiful and realistic. To the left and right one can see
the Kepler eyepieces with their greater field of view but upside down image.
We also made them with the extra long extension so that
the telescope can be focused on objects as close as 40 feet. about the depth
of a hall for indoor demonstrations. These eyepieces make the telescope a
double purpose instrument.
Don't forget to give our web site a short acknowledgement if you use our
photos etc. Not absolutely necessary but would be nice if you did.
Have fun.
http://www.galileotelescope.org/
Click here
to
see our web site for building
museum quality telescopes from both of Galileo's original telescopes (IMSS 2427 and IMSS 2428)
which are at IMSS Florence Italy. We have made a number of them for major museums
and educational institutions.
Rhoda and Jim,
the authors of these web sites, wish to thank the staff of IMSS in Florence
Italy, very much, for all their important help on this project .
Make sure you visit the IMSS on your next visit to Europe
It has Galileo's
original telescopes and examples of the
first
Electric measuring instruments
that gave birth to
our modern optical and electric
telescopic view of our universe. All of the exhibits are very
important technically in addition they are worth visiting as very
beautiful and creative works of art.
Antiques of Science & Technology
Jim &
Rhoda Morris 781 245 2897
Galileo@comcast.net
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03/04/2009
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Click here
where we
show you the details about our measurement of the original
telescopes, and re- creating very accurately, both of Galileo's
surviving telescopes, on display at IMSS in Florence Italy.
There is
over 60 pages of notes and data etc some jumbled some not, that can be mined for your
use. It has been a big project for us to serve you.IMSS #2427
the development telescope technically probably the most important of
the two.
IMSS #2428 the
most, by far, beautiful leather covered gilded telescope
that Galileo used for marketing purposes. It still is admiralty
playing this role. Our replicas are helping out to do this also. in
addition to teaching science. and about science.
We are
very proud to have made them for
major education institutions in the U.S. and
abroad. Below is a brief list of those that have them.
"IMSS"
Institute and Museum of the History of Science,
the home of the originals at Florence Italy,
Griffith
Observatory
in California
Adler
Planetarium
in Chicago Ill.
Lyndon
Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas.
Huntington Library and Art Collections,
in San
Marino, CA
More soon will be
on display in the U.S. and in Beijing
China
May we make
these wonderful telescope for you?
Please Call us at 781 245
2897 e-mail us at
Galileo@comcast.net.
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Click photo to inlarger image
Above is one of our precise
replica's on display at Griffith ObservatoryYou have probably have seen many photos of this display on the
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Click here
where we
show you the details about our measurement of the original
telescopes, and re- creating very accurately, both of Galileo's
surviving telescopes, on display at IMSS in Florence Italy.
There is
over 60 pages of notes and data etc some jumbled some not, that can be mined for your
use.
We have encouraged Griffith to pull out a few inches the objective
and eyepiece tubes to show more of the beautiful decorations that are not now
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Below is the construction details of our low cost Galilean telescope that we made
as a prop for the TV program
Brilliant Minds: Secrets of the Cosmos
One can easily make this one
with personalize style decorations.
The photo below is one we took while on the set from one
of the scenes for the
movie
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Below are the details of making a very fast
and rough replica. We used one for a TV prop. The general principals of making a crude replica
are described on this web page. If you build
one take the time to personalize yours with you own art work.
As a warning to those who intend to make
replicas of Galileo's telescopes much of the literature we looked at gave us
only rough details some very wrong for both telescopes and the lens used by
Galileo for a number his investigations
of the moons of Jupiter 1610. We had to visited the originals in Florence
Italy a number of times to make accurate measurements for our museum grade
replicas. We wish to thank the staff of IMSS in
Florence Italy very much, for all their help. Make sure you visit the IMSS on your next
visit Italy
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Below
The roughed out replica telescope tube with
the optics was made from cloth stores cardboard tubes.
Creating a realistic deco
covering for the scope for the least amount of money was a challenge.
Below the search for cheap replica leather
and gilt deco telescope covering. Note all the deco bands.
We used an HP7840 computer, Adobe Photoshop, and
a banner printing Epson600 banner ink jet printer.
The printing was done on an embossed water color paper from the local art
supply house.
Below the final draft of the art deco for the body
of the telescope.
$1.50 worth of embossed water color paper,
$1.23 for inkjet ink for acid free paper,
$02 glue,
and $1.25 varnish.
Since the telescope was not going to be used in a close in camera shot and we
wanted to save the project money
and time we took a standard deco pattern.
How it looks on the set in the hands of the
actor.
The telescope had the same optics as Galileo's. It has a very
small field of view and was very hard to keep it steady. It was a wonder that Galileo could have convinced
anyone looking through his telescope that there were moons spinning around
Jupiter.
Click here to see an inclined plane we have built similar one
to Galileo might have used to study the laws of falling bodies.
Click here
Galileo Pendulum Mistake Building A Brachistochrone
Copyright Jim & Rhoda Morris 2005
