18th-Century Bone Telescopes Discovered in Amsterdam
When you buy through links on our web site , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it works . Five scope made of osseous tissue and date to the eighteenth C have been discovered in Amsterdam , with two of the scopes found in the equivalent of john . At the time , called the Enlightenment , the telescope would have been considered sumptuousness items and were probably used to stare at objects on land or ocean , rather than to look at the stars ....