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Microscopes

Images

  • Left, a woman personifying science instructing her children in how to use a microscope; a woman personifying truth reveals the scene to Father Time. Mezzotint after T.S. Duché, 1787.
  • William Henry Dallinger. Oil painting by Edgar Thomas, ca. 1884.
  • George Shadbolt. Photograph.
  • M0014542: Directions for using the double microscope of P. and J. Dolland opticians, St. Paul's Church Yard, London
  • The horizontal achromatic microscope by Charles Chevalier, based on the modified reflecting microscope of Amici.
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Catalogue

    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Microscope / W.D. & H.O. Wills.

    | Date: [1915]
    • Books
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    Manuel du microscope dans ses applications au diagnostic et à la clinique / par Mathias Duval and L. Lereboullet.

    Duval, Mathias, 1844-1907. | Date: 1877
    • Archives and manuscripts
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    M0010724: Binocular microscope

    | Date: 12 August 1948 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/94/97
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
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    M0010952: Binocular microscope no.1925 by W. Watson and Sons, c.1875-1890

    | Date: February 1949 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/97/18
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Books
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    Lectures and collections / made by Robert Hooke.

    Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703 | Date: 1678
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