Solar microscope
Date
1768
Creator
Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt (1733 - 1796, German) , Engraver
After
Martin Frobene Ledermuller (1719 - 1769, German) , Naturalist
Object type
Library reference
48660
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 245mm
width (print): 195mm
width (print): 195mm
Subject
Content object
Description
A depiction of John Cuff’s solar microscope, showing the brass plate to which the main tube is attached (below) and two representations of optical experiments in the microscope’s dark room (above).
Inscribed above: ‘TAB: II.’
Inscribed below: ‘M. F. L .de: A. W. W. sc et ex’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Le Miscroscope solaire par derriere, & 2. Chambres obscures avec des Representations Optiques’ [‘The solar microscope from behind and 2. Dark rooms with optical representations’].
Plate 2 from Amusement microscopique, tant pour l'esprit que pour les yeux, contenant... estampes... d'apres nature...by Martin Frobene Ledermuller, plates volume (Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt, Nuremburg, 1768).
Martin Frobene [Frobenius] Ledermuller (1719-1769) German naturalist was employed in various capacities as a notary, turning to microscope studies after an illness induced temporary deafness.
John Cuff (c.1708-c.1772), English optician and scientific instrument maker, particularly of microscopes.
Inscribed above: ‘TAB: II.’
Inscribed below: ‘M. F. L .de: A. W. W. sc et ex’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Le Miscroscope solaire par derriere, & 2. Chambres obscures avec des Representations Optiques’ [‘The solar microscope from behind and 2. Dark rooms with optical representations’].
Plate 2 from Amusement microscopique, tant pour l'esprit que pour les yeux, contenant... estampes... d'apres nature...by Martin Frobene Ledermuller, plates volume (Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt, Nuremburg, 1768).
Martin Frobene [Frobenius] Ledermuller (1719-1769) German naturalist was employed in various capacities as a notary, turning to microscope studies after an illness induced temporary deafness.
John Cuff (c.1708-c.1772), English optician and scientific instrument maker, particularly of microscopes.
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