Phakoscope designed by Hermann von Helmhotz
- Made:
- 1870-1878 in Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg and Germany
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Phakoscope designed by Hermann von Helmhotz, made by H. Sittel, Heidelberg, Germany, c.1875, on japanned wooden stand, with leather covered case. used to determine the change in shape of the human crystalline lens when the eye focuses at different distances
Details
- Category:
- Optics
- Object Number:
- 1878-74
- Materials:
- wood (japanned), leather, paper, metal (ferrous), brass (copper, zinc alloy) and glass
- Measurements:
-
overall: 283 mm x 260 mm x 140 mm, , .795kg
- type:
- phakoscope
- credit:
- Normal School of Science
