Crude boxfoot microscope

Made:: 1750-1800 in France

maker:: Unknown

Crude boxfoot microscope
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Crude boxfoot microscope, with body tube lined with music sheets, supposedly owned by Lavoisier, French, 1750-1800

Details

Category:: Microscopy (Wellcome)

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A604199

Materials:: body tube, pasteboard, body tube, vellum, body tube, leather and body tube, wood

Measurements:: overall: height 377 mm
body tube: diameter 48 mm

type:: boxfoot microscopes

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