Object Details
- Description
- Brass screw barrel microscope with several lenses, ivory handle, six ivory slides, and wooden box covered with dark fish skin. James Wilson, an optical instrument maker in London, described the form in 1702. He did not make the first instruments of this sort, and never claimed to, but the form was often associated with him.
- Ref: James Wilson, “The Description and Manner of Using a Late Invented Set of Small Pocket-Microscopes, Made by James Wilson,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 23 (1702): 1241-1247.
- Reginald Clay and Thomas Court, The History of the Microscope (London, 1932), pp. 44-50.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- 1730-1760
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0906
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06302
- collector/donor number
- SAP 994
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0906
- Object Name
- microscope
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- ivory (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- shargreen (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in x 3 3/4 in; 4.445 cm x 13.97 cm x 9.525 cm
- Related Publication
- Origin and Developement of The Microscope
- Reginald S. Clay, B.A., D.Sc., F.Inst.P. and Thomas H. Court. The History of the Microscope
- Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Microscopes
- Science & Mathematics
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Pharmacy
- Microscopy
- Record ID
- nmah_994345
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-142a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
