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Compound and simple microscope
    • Setting:
      Room XV
    • Maker:
      Andrew Pritchard
    • Place:
      London
    • Date:
      ca. 1835
    • Materials:
      brass
    • Dimensions:
      height 230 mm; box 278x200x74 mm
    • Inventory:
      2664, 3217
    • Compound and simple microscope (Inv. 2664, 3217)

This instrument, built by Andrew Pritchard, can be used as either a compound microscope or a simple microscope. A pillar set on a tripod holds a tilting limb carrying the mirror, converging lens, body-tube and stage. The image is focused by rackwork, inserted in the tilting limb that supports the body-tube. The eyepiece is Huygenian. The arm supporting the body-tube carries a collar in which a lens can be inserted when the instrument is used as simple microscope. There are objectives, a micrometer, and accessories for handling specimens.