Object Details
- Description
- Solar microscopes were introduced around 1740, and still popular in the nineteenth century. This incomplete example--only the mirror and window frame remain--may have been made in Paris around 1850 and used for public lectures at the Smithsonian.
- Ref: Lerebours et Secretan, Catalogue et Prix des Instruments (Paris, 1853), pp. 11-12.
- Deborah Warner, “Projection Apparatus for Science in Antebellum America,” Rittenhouse 6 (1992): 87-94.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- PH.315162
- catalog number
- 315162
- accession number
- 219145
- Object Name
- Solar Microscope
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 9 1/8 in x 9 1/8 in x 12 1/2 in; 23.1775 cm x 23.1775 cm x 31.75 cm
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Microscopes
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Science & Scientific Instruments
- Record ID
- nmah_1695374
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-37c5-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
