M0015646: Microscope used by Louis Pasteur

Date:
January 1957
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/140/4
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M0015646: Microscope used by Louis Pasteur. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced March 2022: Microscope used by Pasteur

Description

Photograph of a microscope produced by Nachet et Fils, Paris and used by Louis Pasteur during his experiments on spontaneous generation. The item was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1927 and accessioned in 1939 (accession number R1119/1939). It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

January 1957

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provide an entry for the item: acc. number R1119/1936

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Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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 2021.

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Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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