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Solar Microscope

Solar Microscope

The Smithsonian catalogs Solar Microscope as solar microscope in its Science & Scientific Instruments records.

WHY IT’S INTERESTING

Solar microscopes of this sort were introduced around 1740 and were still popular in the nineteenth century. Wesleyan University may have acquired this example soon after its founding in 1831. The “Benj. Pike & Son, New York” inscription indicates the firm that sold it, but not necessarily the firm that made it.

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The Smithsonian lists the object under Science & Scientific Instruments and dates it 1830-1850.

Solar microscopes of this sort were introduced around 1740 and were still popular in the nineteenth century. Wesleyan University may have acquired this example soon after its founding in 1831. The “Benj. Pike & Son, New York” inscription indicates the firm that sold it, but not necessarily the firm that made it.

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Smithsonian InstitutionSolar Microscope

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