M0000210: Nachet collection: telescope made for King William III
- Date:
- August 1929
- Reference:
- WT/D/1/20/1/3/70
- 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: telescope; made for the King. 1692.
Description
Image of a telescope made by John Yarwell in 1692 for King William III of England. The Nachet Collection was a large set of microscopes collected by Albert Nachet and acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (accession number R211/1949). The microscope is not held by Wellcome Collection.
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
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