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Criou a primeira telescopio practico. Hans Lippershey (1570-1619)
PHILATELY
postage stamp
Guinea-Bissau Post Office
Africa: Guinea-Bissau
2008
paper
overall: 36 mm x 50 mm

Postage stamp issued to mark the 400th anniversary of the invention of the practical telescope. Landscape format. Printed in full colour. Value 450 FCFA, unused and uncancelled. Features a portrait purporting to be of the Dutch spectacle maker Hans Lipperhey (1570-1619) shown alongside a telescope of later date with a planet in the background.


2023.119

Gift of Dr Neil Handley, 2023



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