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Nuremberg compound microscope
    • Setting:
      Room XVIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      German
    • Date:
      first half 19th cent.
    • Materials:
      wood
    • Dimensions:
      height 310 mm, base diameter 125 mm; box 188x191x355 mm
    • Inventory:
      3390
    • Nuremberg compound microscope (Inv. 3390)

Typical compound microscope from Nuremberg, housed in a pyramidal box. The city of Nuremberg was famous for its inexpensive wooden microscopes with tubes covered with decorated paper for domestic use. The body-tube is inserted in a wooden tripod to whose base the mirror is attached. The lenses are missing.