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Astronomical telescope (Gregorian reflector type), from about 1765, England, by Heath and Wing, London

A brass reflecting telescope similar in appearance and optical design to those used by Captain Cook and his astronomer Charles Green at Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus on 3 June 1769.

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Purchased 1953. Te Papa (NS000010/1)

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