Microscopic apparatus
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
Dissasembled parts of a microscope designed by Johannes van Musschenbroek, showing a specimen table, with lens arm (figure 1) and specimen (fig. 2) attached, lens caps, with (m) and without (l, o) lenses, and the screw system.
Inscribed above: ‘TAB: XXV.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Une pareille machine de bois avec les noix de Muschenbrock’ [‘A machine with Muschenbrock nuts’].
Plate 25 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.
Johannes Joosten van Musschenbroek (1660-1707), Dutch instrument maker. Van Musschenbroek’s microscopes used a series of ball-and-socket joints, known as ‘Musschenbroek nuts’, to connect the lense and specimen holder, allowing for easy manipulation of the distance between the two.
Inscribed above: ‘TAB: XXV.’
The accompanying text is headed: ‘Une pareille machine de bois avec les noix de Muschenbrock’ [‘A machine with Muschenbrock nuts’].
Plate 25 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.
Johannes Joosten van Musschenbroek (1660-1707), Dutch instrument maker. Van Musschenbroek’s microscopes used a series of ball-and-socket joints, known as ‘Musschenbroek nuts’, to connect the lense and specimen holder, allowing for easy manipulation of the distance between the two.
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