Nuremburg-type microscope

Made:: 1780-1820

Nuremburg-type microscope, German
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Nuremburg-type microscope, German, late 18th or early 19th century

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Category:: Microscopy (Wellcome)

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A95911

Materials:: eyecup, walnut, tube collars & nose, walnut, draw tubes, pasteboard, draw tubes, beech, lenses, glass, drum, oak and split rings, steel

Measurements:: eye lens: diameter 20 mm
field lens: diameter 26 mm
objective: diameter 12 mm
body tube: length 157 mm
drum: height 117 mm
drum: length 65 mm
drum: width 65 mm
overall: height 220 mm

type:: nuremburg microscopes

credit:: Taeuber and Weil

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Nuremburg-type microscope

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