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Objekt 3

Simple microscope with illuminating lens

Object description

Manufacturer: Edmund Culpeper (c. 1660-1738)

London, 1st third 18th c.

Brass, glass, ivory, case covered with black fish-skin

Gift 1829 from Prof. Daniel Huber

Deposit Institute of Physics of the University of Basel, Phys. 119.

Inv. 1986.429

Next to it a document

Instructions for the use of simple microscopes

From: Extracta / und / Nützliches Allerley / von / Joh[ann] Aug[ust] Goetze, Diaconus / in Quedlinburg / (18th century).

Depositum Institute of Physics of the University of Basel, Phys. o. Nr.

Inv. 1986.465.

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