M0010954: Giovanni Amici's horizontal microscope, c.1830-1860

Date:
February 1949
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/97/20
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M0010954: Giovanni Amici's horizontal microscope, c.1830-1860. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced April 2021: The working instrument of Professor Amici.

Description

A modification of Giovanni Battista Amici's reflecting microscope for use with an achromatic objective. The microscope was purchased at auction by the the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1925 and accessioned in 1927 (accession number R17966 and R261/1949). It is now held by the the Science Museum (object number A56542)

Publication/Creation

February 1949

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds two accession registers which provide an entry for the item: acc. number R17966 image 401 and acc. number R265/19

Copyright note

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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