Compass microscope pieces
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
Disassembled parts of a compass microscope, also known as a universal microscope, including: main body, sliding tray, forceps, lenses and screws.
Inscribed above: ‘TAB: XI.’
Inscribed below: ‘A.W. Winterschmidt Sculps: en exc’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Descripsion des pieces d’un microscope universel de nouvelle invention’ [‘Description of the parts of a newly invented universal microscope’], and the description explains how the pieces fit together.
Plate 11 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.
George Adams (c. 1709–1773), English instrument maker and science writer, designed the compass microscope in the mid 18th century.
Inscribed above: ‘TAB: XI.’
Inscribed below: ‘A.W. Winterschmidt Sculps: en exc’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Descripsion des pieces d’un microscope universel de nouvelle invention’ [‘Description of the parts of a newly invented universal microscope’], and the description explains how the pieces fit together.
Plate 11 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.
George Adams (c. 1709–1773), English instrument maker and science writer, designed the compass microscope in the mid 18th century.
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