M0000188: Nachet Collection: Passemant microscope
- Date:
- August 1929
- Reference:
- WT/D/1/20/1/3/48
- Part of:
- Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Collection contents
About this work
Also known as
Previous title, replaced May 2020: Nachet Collection: Passemant microscope.
Description
Image of a Boxfoot cuff microscope by French maker Passemant made in the mid eighteenth century in Paris. The Nachet Collection was a large set of microscopes collected by Albert Nachet and acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (accession number R223/1949). The microscope is now held by the Science Museum (object number: A67393).
Publication/Creation
August 1929
Physical description
1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm
Related material
Wellcome Collection holds the Nachet Collection dossier and accession register which provides a detailed entry for the microscope (R223/19
Notes
Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.
Terms of use
Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.
Subjects
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesBy appointment Manual request