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Compound microscope
    • Setting:
      Room XIV
    • Inventor:
      Giovanni Battista Amici
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Italian
    • Date:
      1832-1862
    • Materials:
      brass
    • Dimensions:
      height 335 mm, base diameter 98 mm
    • Inventory:
      2663
    • Compound microscope (Inv. 2663)

This compound microscope is of the type made by Giovanni Battista Amici. The square-sectioned pillar supporting the instrument is hinged to round base. The stage, fitted with a micrometer movement, tilts for fine focus. The body-tube has a Huygenian eyepiece and is adjusted for coarse focus by rackwork. Between the stage and the illumination mirror, a condenser lens can be inserted. There are two illumination prisms mounted on two articulated arms.