Compound 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
Study of a compound microscope, showing its eyepiece and objective lenses, main body tube and one supporting arm, with details of some of the internal mechanics.
Inscribed above: ‘TAB: XIV’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Represente par contre les pieces qui appartiennent au microscope compose’ [Representation by contrast of the parts of a compound manuscript’].
The author provides a physical description of the microscope: ‘a) Le tuiau cylindrique a deux verres qui s'affermit par le bas ans un double anneau de laiton b) & Ensuite par le moien de la piece c) a une de branches du compas. Ce bras est partage a d); & sa partie superieure est soudee a l'anneau d'enhaut b) comme l'inferieure l'est a l'anneau d'en bas e)’ [‘a) The cylindrical tube has two lenses which are adjusted by a double brass ring at the bottom b) & then in the middle of these c) a supporting arm. This arm is one of two & its upper part is welded to the upper ring, as the lower is to the lower ring’].
Plate 14 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.
Inscribed above: ‘TAB: XIV’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Represente par contre les pieces qui appartiennent au microscope compose’ [Representation by contrast of the parts of a compound manuscript’].
The author provides a physical description of the microscope: ‘a) Le tuiau cylindrique a deux verres qui s'affermit par le bas ans un double anneau de laiton b) & Ensuite par le moien de la piece c) a une de branches du compas. Ce bras est partage a d); & sa partie superieure est soudee a l'anneau d'enhaut b) comme l'inferieure l'est a l'anneau d'en bas e)’ [‘a) The cylindrical tube has two lenses which are adjusted by a double brass ring at the bottom b) & then in the middle of these c) a supporting arm. This arm is one of two & its upper part is welded to the upper ring, as the lower is to the lower ring’].
Plate 14 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.
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