Culpeper microscope with Culpeper's trade card in box

Made:: 1731-1750 in London

maker:: Edmund Culpeper

Culpeper microscope with Culpeper's trade card in box

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Culpeper microscope with Culpeper's trade card in box, English, 1731-1750

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Category:: Microscopy (Wellcome)

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A1849

Materials:: lenses, glass, body tube, lignum vitae, body tube, vellum, green, body tube, brass, nose, body tube support, wood, body tube support, shagreen, black, stand, brass, stage, brass, base, lignum vitae and box, oak

Measurements:: overall: height 382 mm
body tube: length 235 mm
body tube: diameter 64 mm
stage: diameter 90 mm
stand: height 174 mm
base: diameter 131 mm
box: height 462 mm
box: length 184 mm

type:: culpeper microscope

credit:: Atkinson, D.M.

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