A Cooke eyepiece for James Cook

 

James Cook 1839-1919 was born in Lancaster and worked on his father’s farm. He became interested in astronomy and being well educated began the construction of reflecting telescopes up to the size of an 18 inch. He also made some small refractors.

In 1867 he purchased from Thomas Cooke & Son 3 eyepieces and a finder for one of his home made telescopes, I don’t know the size of telescope they would be used on.

He lived in Preston but in 1884 he travelled to New South Wales in Australia to become a mechanic at the Sydney University and produced many pieces of equipment for the physics laboratory at the university. He died in Sydney from pneumonia in 1919.