Microscope
notes: label: Description
content: Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek (1635-1723) was a Dutch tradesman who became interested in microscopy while on a visit to London in 1666. Returning home, he began making simple microscopes of the sort that Robert Hooke had described in his, <i>Micrographia</i>, and using them to discover objects invisible to the naked eye.
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content: In 1886, John Mayall, a prominent English microscopist, made drawings of an original Leeuwenhoek microscope that belonged to the Zoological Laboratories at the University of Utrecht, and that a Dutch professor had brought to London. Replicas followed soon thereafter. The Smithsonian’s example is a replica of a Mayall replica. It is marked “COPIE / LEIDEN.”
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content: Ref: J. Mayall, “Leeuwenhoek’s Microscopes,” <i>Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society</i> 6 (1886): 1047-1049.
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content: J. van Zuylen, “The Microscopes of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek,” <i>Journal of Microscopy</i> 121 (1981): 309-328.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Microscopes
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Rijksmuseum voor de Geschiedenis
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0653.01
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content: 1977.0653.01
label: accession number
content: 1977.0653
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 1 1/4 in x 1 1/8 in; 7.62 cm x 3.175 cm x 2.8575 cm