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- Description
- This is a replica of a screw-barrel microscope that may have been made Eustachio Divini (1610-1685), an Italian optical instrument maker, and that may have been used by the anatomist, Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694). As the tube bulges out at the upper end, it has been referred to a “vase” type microscope.
- Ref: Reginald Clay and Thomas Court, The History of the Microscope (London, 1932), pp. 79-80.
- Maria Luisa Righini Bonelli and Albert Van Helden, Divini and Campani: A Forgotten Chapter in the History of the Accademia del Cimento (Florence, 1981).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- microscope
- microscope, replica
- date made
- 1936-1944
- maker
- Lucas, Joseph D.
- place made
- United States: Ohio, Cleveland
- Measurements
- overall: 21.5 cm x 9 cm; 8 15/32 in x 3 17/32 in
- ID Number
- MG.M-12219
- catalog number
- M-12219
- accession number
- 271793
- Credit Line
- Mrs. Joseph D. Lucas
- subject
- Science & Scientific Instruments
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Science & Mathematics
- Microscopes
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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