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Prism with stand
    • Setting:
      Room XIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Date:
      second half 18th cent.
    • Materials:
      glass, wood, brass
    • Dimensions:
      140x100x150 mm, prism side 29 mm
    • Inventory:
      742
    • Prism with stand (Inv. 742)

Wooden box with two open sides contains an equilateral glass prism fastened by means of a brass ring nut. Isaac Newton used instruments of this type for his famous experiments on the separation of white light into a polychromatic spectrum.