Culpeper-Type Compound Microscope, by Edmund Culpeper, London, c. 1730 | |
| Object is on display. | |
| Inventory Number: | 77213 |
| Object Type: | Object |
| Persons: | Edmund Culpeper |
| Date Created: | c.1730 |
| Place Created: | London England United Kingdom Europe |
| Accession Number: | 1970-101/part |
| Brief Description: | Three turned brass pillars extend from the circular lignum-vitae base. These support the stage which holds three shorter brass pillars, set between those below, which rise to a brass disc on which the body rests. The sleeve is wood covered with grey rayskin. Inside this, the body tube is covered with green vellum. There are five objectives, a stage bull's-eye and stage forceps with pin, a wet cell with four apertures, an ivory slider, a fish-plate and a flat glass set in a brass ring. The microscope has a pyramidal wooden case with a drawer at the base and an illustrated print on the rear panel. |
| Primary Inscriptions: | On trade card: "E. Culpeper Sculpt. London" |
| Provenance: | Lent by the Royal Microscopical Society in 1970
Presented to the Royal Microscopical Society by Wynne Edwin Baxter FRMS, 21 November 1906 |
| Collection Group: | Royal Microscopical Society Collection |
| Material(s): |
Brass wood rayskin and vellum |
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