Accession No

3262

Brief Description

two lenses and one prism, by Carl Zeiss, German, 2/2 19th Century

Origin

Germany; Jena

Maker

Carl Zeiss

Class

optical

Earliest Date

1850

Latest Date

1900

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass, oxidised brass, white metal), glass; paper; wood (cork)

Dimensions

small lens diameter 89mm; thickness 50mm large lens length 212mm; maximum diameter 128mm prism thickness 70mm; triangle side 115mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred from Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 09/1985.

Inscription

‘Carl Zeiss, Jena. Apochromat No 205.’ (large lens)
‘Carl Zeiss, Jena. Apochromat No 204.’ (small lens)
‘Huggins’ (pencil on prism)

Description Notes

Lens set in oxidised brass with screw-fit brass mounting. ‘Kamera’ marked in pencil on barrel.
Lens set in white metal with long brass tube lined with black-painted paper. Tube with scale divided [0.2] - 0 - 4, numbered by 1, subdivided to 0.1 (possibly later addition).
Equilateral triangular prism, marked ‘Collimator’ in pencil.

complete.

References

Events