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Main Author: Del Santo, Paolo
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02857
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  • A re-examination of a well-known iconographic source, the "Allegory of Sight" by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens, reveals that one of the two telescopes depicted in the painting has a highly unusual,and until now unknown to the historians of the telescope, particularity.