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Microscope

Microscope

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

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Brass screw-barrel microscope of the sort that the English optician, James Wilson, introduced to the Royal Society in 1702. It has a detachable wooden handle; three condensing lenses, each in a brass holder; a brass bar holding six objectives; nine ivory sliders; and a forceps. A second brass tube with a large and almost flat condensing lens could be used to connect the microscope with a (missing)

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The Smithsonian lists the object under Science & Scientific Instruments and dates it 19th century.

Brass screw-barrel microscope of the sort that the English optician, James Wilson, introduced to the Royal Society in 1702. It has a detachable wooden handle; three condensing lenses, each in a brass holder; a brass bar holding six objectives; nine ivory sliders; and a forceps. A second brass tube with a large and almost flat condensing lens could be used to connect the microscope with a (missing)

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Smithsonian InstitutionMicroscope

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