Nuremburg type compound microscope marked uncertainly "IM" (inside circle)

Made:: 1781-1820 in Germany

maker:: IM

Nuremburg type compound microscope marked uncertainly IM'
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Nuremburg type compound microscope marked uncertainly "IM" (inside circle), German, 1781-1820

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Category:: Microscopy (Wellcome)

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A56318

Materials:: stand & tube collars, walnut, dust caps & nose, walnut, draw tubes, pasteboard, draw tubes, beech and lenses, glass

Measurements:: eye lens sitting: diameter 18 mm
field lens: diameter 27 mm
objective: diameter 9 mm
objective aperture: diameter 1 mm
body tube: length 167 mm
stand: height 153 mm
base: diameter 119 mm
overall: height 322 mm

type:: nuremburg microscopes

credit:: Emmering

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Nuremburg type compound microscope marked uncertainly "IM" (inside circle)

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