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Compound microscope
    • Setting:
      Room XV
    • Maker:
      Edmund Hartnack
    • Place:
      Potsdam
    • Date:
      ca. 1880
    • Materials:
      brass
    • Dimensions:
      height 290 mm
    • Inventory:
      3268
    • Compound microscope (Inv. 3268)

Compound microscope built by Edmund Hartnack. The mirror and stage are placed above a ball-and-socket joint holding the pillar with the body-tube. Coarse focus is by sliding the body-tube in its metal sleeve; fine focus is by a screw and knob. A bull's eye lens is mounted on an articulated arm that fits over the sleeve. There are three objectives. Belonged to Pietro Marchi.