Microscope
date: label: date made
content: 1799
name: label: maker
content: Dellebarre, Louis Francoise
notes: label: Description
content: Compound monocular microscope with two stage holders, a sub-stage mirror, a folding tripod foot, and an inscription that reads “DELEBARRE / 1799 / Onderdewyngaart Canzius / Confecit / DELFT.” The form was designed in 1770 by Louis F. Dellebarre (1726-1805), a French scientist who spent some time in the Netherlands. This example was made by Jacob Hendrik Onderdewyngaart Canzius (1771-1838), a lawyer who ran an instrument shop in Delft from 1797 to 1810.
label: Description
content: Ref: Peter de Clerq, “J. H. Onderdewijngaart Canzius, instrument manufacturer and museum director,” <i>Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society</i> 49 (1996): 22-24.
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: Medicine
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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: MG.M-12321
label: accession number
content: 281267
label: catalog number
content: M-12321
label: catalog number
content: 281267.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: base: 12 7/16 in x 8 5/8 in x 8 5/8 in; 31.59125 cm x 21.9075 cm x 21.9075 cm
label: Measurements
content: microscope tube: 7 5/8 in x 2.3125 cm; 19.3675 cm x 15/16 in