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Microscope Museum Collection of antique microscopes and other
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Microscope
615 (Unassigned
maker; compound microscope; late-19th century)
Microscope
615 is a compound microscope and should be dated to the late 19th
century. The instrument is not signed. A similar instrument was featured in a
2005 catalogue of the Science Museum in London (Figure 1), where it was
referred as having a French origin and contained the following description: “The
flat horseshoe foot is cast iron painted green; it supports a brass pillar
topped by a compass joint. The tubular limb tilts on this,
and has a sliding collar for the gimbal of the small cave mirror, and
a bracket for the stage. This is a plain rectangle with two clips, and a
smallish aperture. The top of the limb has a bracket for the body-tube
sleeve, in which the tube slides. There is a two-lens eyepiece, and a
three-button objective. A superstage condenser is
carried on a double ball-joint arm attached to the sleeve”.
Figure
1.
Compound microscope as featured in a 2005 catalogue of the Science Museum in
London. |
