Lens on Stand
date: label: date made
content: ca 1829
name: label: maker
content: Lerebours
notes: label: Description
content: Four glass lenses (two convex and two concave), each mounted on a brass stand, purchased for the U.S. Military Academy in 1829. The “Lerebours à Paris” inscription on each stand refers to Noël Jean Lerebours (1761-1840), a prominent French optician and instrument maker.
label: Description
content: Ref: Lerebours et Secretan, <i>Catalogue et Prix des Instruments</i> (Paris, 1853), p. 32.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Optics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Military Academy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.315658
label: catalog number
content: 315658
label: accession number
content: 217544
objectType: label: Object Name
content: optical apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 1/2 in; 34.29 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; each: 13 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in x 4 1/2 in; 34.29 cm x 12.065 cm x 11.43 cm