Object Details
- Duboscq-Soleil
- Description
- This type of solar microscope was introduced around 1740 and was still popular in the nineteenth century. The “Duboscq Soleil / à Paris” inscription on the tube of this example refers to Jules Duboscq (1817-1886), an important French optical instrument maker who apprenticed with J. B. F. Soleil, married one of his daughters, took charge of part of the firm following Soleil’s retirement in 1849, and used the “Duboscq Soleil” signature for a few years.
- Ref: Deborah Warner, “Projection Apparatus for Science in Antebellum America,” Rittenhouse 6 (1992): 87-94.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Brown University
- ID Number
- PH.315379
- accession number
- 218984
- catalog number
- 315379
- Object Name
- Solar Microscope
- Measurements
- mirror: 11 in x 5 in; 27.94 cm x 12.7 cm
- overall: 9 in x 9 1/8 in x 23 in; 22.86 cm x 23.1775 cm x 58.42 cm
- place made
- France: Île-de-France, Département de Ville-de-Paris
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Science & Scientific Instruments
- Record ID
- nmah_1519158
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746af-2279-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
