Draft talk:Original research/Early telescopes

Image in Vasari painting
Hi! I'm hoping someone can help me identify an object in the painting by Giorgio Vasari of "The Mutiliation of Uranus by Saturn". Above the scene, apparently peering out an opening in a dome-like cage, is an object that looks like a telescope or something similar. At the left end of it is what appears to be an aperture lens and at the other end an objective lens. Help or suggestions are appreciated. --Marshallsumter ( talk ) 02:36, 8 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Whole thing is some kind of Armillary sphere... -- AnonMoos ( talk ) 20:33, 8 October 2012 (UTC)


 * It would be the sceptre, the symbolic attribute of the ruler of the deities and of the universe. It was an attribute of Uranus and is about to pass to Cronus. The nature of a sceptre as a phallic symbol seems especially obvious in the context of this painting. The ruling god and owner of the sceptre during a given mythical era is also the main progenitor of that era. (Thus mirroring an alpha male in primate and some other animal societies.) -- Asclepias ( talk ) 19:26, 9 October 2012 (UTC)