Solar Microscope
name: label: maker
content: Duboscq-Soleil
notes: label: Description
content: This type of solar microscope was introduced around 1740 and was still popular in the nineteenth century. The “Duboscq Soleil / à Paris” inscription on the tube of this example refers to Jules Duboscq (1817-1886), an important French optical instrument maker who apprenticed with J. B. F. Soleil, married one of his daughters, took charge of part of the firm following Soleil’s retirement in 1849, and used the “Duboscq Soleil” signature for a few years.
label: Description
content: Ref: Deborah Warner, “Projection Apparatus for Science in Antebellum America,” <i>Rittenhouse</i> 6 (1992): 87-94.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Département de Ville-de-Paris
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Brown University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.315379
label: accession number
content: 218984
label: catalog number
content: 315379
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Solar Microscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: mirror: 11 in x 5 in; 27.94 cm x 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 9 1/8 in x 23 in; 22.86 cm x 23.1775 cm x 58.42 cm