Accession No

0875

Brief Description

compound microscope, tripod type; circa 1690

Origin

Maker

Class

microscopes

Earliest Date

1690

Latest Date

1690

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass); organic (horn); paper (pasteboard); hide (vellum, leather); wood (oak, lignum vitae)

Dimensions

height 283mm; base diameter 84mm

Special Collection

Robert Whipple collection

Provenance

Purchased by Robert Stewart Whipple from T.H. Court, Harrow, England, on 13/06/1938.

Inscription

Description Notes

Circular [lignum vitae] base with central aperture; 3 turned brass legs to horn collar with central screw thread; lignum vitae snout with external screw thread; ferrule for pasteboard body covered with unstained vellum; field lens in oak mount; push fit draw tube over pasteboard body covered with morocco decorated with gold tooling; turned lignum vitae eyepiece; lens and dust cap mentioned; forming a box with a lid, turned from lignum vitae.

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