Solar Microscope
notes: label: Description
content: Solar microscopes were introduced around 1740, and still popular in the nineteenth century. This incomplete example--only the mirror and window frame remain--may have been made in Paris around 1850 and used for public lectures at the Smithsonian.
label: Description
content: Ref: Lerebours et Secretan, <i>Catalogue et Prix des Instruments</i> (Paris, 1853), pp. 11-12.
label: Description
content: Deborah Warner, “Projection Apparatus for Science in Antebellum America,” <i>Rittenhouse</i> 6 (1992): 87-94.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Microscopes
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content: Science & Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.315162
label: catalog number
content: 315162
label: accession number
content: 219145
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Solar Microscope
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/8 in x 9 1/8 in x 12 1/2 in; 23.1775 cm x 23.1775 cm x 31.75 cm