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Screwbarrel Microscope, by Edmund Culpeper, London, c. 1715

Inventory Number 41824


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.41824

Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Provenance
Lent by the Royal Microscopical Society in 1970 Purchased by Royal Microscopical Society at the sale of Prof. John Quekett's effects 1861.
Primary inscriptions
"Culpeper Fect."
Object type
microscope
Dimensions
Diameter: 19mm Height: 165mm
Inventory No
41824
Accession Number
1970-101/part

Description

Silver and ivory screw-barrel microscope with black hide covered wood box lined with red fabric. Box contains three ivory sliders, two with four windows, one with six windows, and a brass and glass slider that is blank.