
Claire Tole-Moir
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£8,000 - £12,000
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This instrument is not signed but is similar in design to the 5-inch reflector in the collection of the National Museum of Science which is fully signed.
Thomas Morton's interest in telescope construction led him to study astronomy. In 1818, he built an astronomical observatory in Kilmarnock, furnished with instruments which he had made, and which was open to the public.