Prism
name: label: Maker
content: Lerebours
notes: label: Description
content: Here, a relatively large crown glass prism (with one obtuse angle and two equal acute angles) is mounted on a brass stand so that it can be moved in all directions. The “LEREBOURS / PARIS” inscription refers to either Noël Jean Lerebours (1761-1840) or his son, Nicholas Paymal Marie Lerebours, who ran the instrument business on his own until 1845.
label: Description
content: Ref: Lerebours et Secretan, <i>Catalogue et Prix des Instruments</i> (Paris, 1853), p. 34.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: United States Military Academy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.315657
label: catalog number
content: 315657
label: accession number
content: 217544
objectType: label: Object Name
content: prism
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 6 1/2 in x 4 in; 27.94 cm x 16.51 cm x 10.16 cm