Accession No

0173

Brief Description

compound microscope, horizontal, by Buron, French, circa 1850

Origin

France; Paris

Maker

Buron Nachet [eyepiece]

Class

microscopes

Earliest Date

1850

Latest Date

1850

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass); glass

Dimensions

height 258mm; depth 238mm; breadth 96mm

Special Collection

Robert Whipple collection

Provenance

Purchased by Robert Stewart Whipple from L. Bieillemand, Brussels, on 11/1924.

Inscription

‘Buron à Paris’

Description Notes

Brass horseshoe-type base; brass pillar with compass joint to horizontal bar; square sectioned, racked bar parallel to pillar carries stage, with pin through base of bar to secure it in vertical position; knurled screw moves stage; spring clips and pivoted substage mounting [for condenser]; swinging plano/concave mirror on shoe; body parallel to horizontal bar with draw tube and diagonal eyepiece; push-fit prism mount slots onto objective mount, which is fixed to the horizontal bar. Screw-fit 3-part compound objective.
Body swings away from objective [for second observer].

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