Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12613

    Double reflecting microscope

    Date
    1742
    Creator
    Object type
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    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (plate): 172mm
    width (plate): 128mm
    Subject
    Physics
       > Optics
          > Microscopy
    Content object
    Description
    View of a tripod-mounted double reflecting microscope designed by Edmund Culpeper. 14 figures including the attachments to the main instrument.

    Inscribed ‘Pag.16. Plate.III.’

    Plate to The microscope made easy by Henry Baker, published by R. Dodsley (London, 1742).

    Henry Baker (1698-1774) was a British naturalist, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1741.

    Edward Culpeper (1660-1738) was an English scientific instrument maker.
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