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Screwbarrel Microscope by Edmund Culpeper, London, c.1710

Inventory Number 67124


Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Provenance
Transferred from the Pitt Rivers Museum in 1939.
Physical material
Brass
Ivory
Object type
microscope
Inventory No
67124
Accession Number
1939-8

Description

``Mounted and augmented type of brass screwbarrel microscope xxx, with pillar stand, articulated arm with illuminating lens [or mirror??], three folding & dismantling feet, and ivory compound extension tube.