M0000239: Nachet collection: compass microscope

Date:
August 1929
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/3/97
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M0000239: Nachet collection: compass microscope. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Nachet collection: hand microscope complete

Description

Image of a hand-held compass microscope made in the mid eighteenth century in England. The Nachet Collection was a large set of microscopes collected by Albert Nachet and acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (accession R49/1949). The microscope is now held by the Science Museum (object number: A67391).

Publication/Creation

August 1929

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

0Wellcome Collection holds the Nachet Collection dossier

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 2020.

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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