21 March – 21 June 2016 in Florence, Rome, Naples, Palermo, Padua

PRISMATIC SPECTROSCOPE

Georg & Sigmund Merz, Monaco di Baviera, 1870

Direct vision spectroscope made of a double system of three crown and flint glass prisms. The instrument did not arrive in time for the expedition to Sicily due to the French-Prussian war.

INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Museo, inv. 7078