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Compound microscope, demonstration
    • Setting:
      Room XIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      German?
    • Date:
      late 19th cent.
    • Materials:
      brass
    • Dimensions:
      length 180 mm; plate of base 61x49 mm
    • Inventory:
      2672
    • Compound microscope, demonstration (Inv. 2672)

Compound microscope, probably German. Consists of a sleeve to which a disk stage is attached at one end. The body-tube slides in the sleeve. The objective is too powerful for this type of microscope. The observer held the instrument and pointed it toward a light source.