Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19954

    ‘Modern’ microscopes

    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
    Subject
    Physics
       > Optics
          > Microscopy
    Biology
       > Natural history
    Content object
    Description
    Studies of two contemporary microscopes, designed by Heinrich Delius (g) and Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn (h, i).

    Inscribed above: ‘TAB: XXXII.’

    The accompanying text is headed: ‘Sur les microscopes anciens & modernes’ [‘On ancient and modern microscopes’].

    Plate 32 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).

    Heinrich Friedrich Delius (1720-1791), German physician.
    Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn (1711-1756), German physician, best known for inventing a reflector for improving microscopic viewing of opaque specimens.

    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.
    Associated place
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          > Germany
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