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Compound microscope
    • Setting:
      Room IX
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Italian
    • Date:
      late 17th cent.
    • Materials:
      cardboard, vellum, wood, brass
    • Dimensions:
      height 200 mm, diameter 58 mm
    • Inventory:
      3247
    • Compound microscope (Inv. 3247)

Compound microscope made of cardboard covered in vellum. Supported in a brass collar with three legs. This support may be modern. The body-tube is made of cardboard covered in green vellum. The mounts are wooden. The only lens present is the objective (diameter 12 mm, thickness 3.5 mm). The glass is pale green and has some bubbles. Provenance: Medici collections.