A Van Cort Dioptric Scope

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An ingenious scope with a multi-prism lens that lets the viewer look at angles as opposed to straight ahead. From Van Cort, Instrument Makers it features brass double ends with an attractive wood body.

Dioptrics is the study of the refraction of light, especially by lenses. Telescopes that create their image with an objective that is a convex lens ( refractors) are said to be ‘dioptric’ telescopes.

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13CIN073-197