Abbe Test Plate
notes: label: Description
content: Abbe test plate for checking the spherical and chromatic aberration of microscope objectives, made by Carl Zeiss in Jena. Ernst Abbe, research director at the Zeiss Optical Works, described the form in 1873.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ernst Abbe, “Beiträge zur Theorie des Mikroskops und der mikroskopischen Wahrnehmung," Archiv fur Mikroscopische Anatomie 9 (1873): 434-437.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Oscar W. Richards, Ph.D
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0500.002
label: accession number
content: 1986.0500
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0500.002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: abbe test plate
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 15/16 in x 3 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 2.38125 cm x 8.255 cm x 4.445 cm