Screwbarrel Microscope, with Compass Microscope and Accessories, by James Wilson?, English, c. 1706 | |||||||||||
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| Inventory Number: | 17260 | ||||||||||
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| Persons: | James Wilson | ||||||||||
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| Place Created: | England United Kingdom Europe |
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| Accession Number: | 1925-43 | ||||||||||
| Brief Description: | Pocket or screwbarrel ivory and brass microscope, with velvet-lined fish-skin case. Unsigned and undated, but probably by James Wilson (c.1665-1730). Includes handle, lens, and object forceps. The instrument corresponds to the improved type of pocket-microscope described in Wilson's second account of his microscope (1706). It could have been used for viewing the collection of slides Inv 30819. | ||||||||||
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| Provenance: | Lent by Christ Church, Oxford in 1925.. | ||||||||||
| Collection Group: | Orrery Collection | ||||||||||
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