Green-painted wooden gold-drawing telescope

[Green-painted wooden gold-drawing telescope]

Green-painted wooden gold-drawing telescope, in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, is 99 cm in length, 4 cm in barrel diameter, 2.6 cm in objective diameter and 1 cm in eyepiece diameter. The old collection of the Qing Palace
The telescope barrel is made of wood, covered with green paint, and painted with red plum flowers and golden leaves
At the beginning of the 16th century, the Italian physicist Galileo made a refracting telescope with a convex lens crop lens and a concave lens as the eyepiece, which is known as “Galileo telescope”. Its advent has greatly expanded people’s ability to observe the world. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Western wonders were introduced into China, and this green-painted wooden gold-drawing telescope entered the palace as a tribute