Reflection of Light Apparatus
date: label: date made
content: second half nineteenth century
name: label: maker
content: Secretan
notes: label: Description
content: This device, with a “Secretan à Paris” inscription on the dial, demonstrates the laws of the reflection of light. Marc Francois Secretan (1804-1867) was a Swiss mathematician who went into partnership with Lerebours in Paris in 1844, and became sole proprietor of the shop in 1855. The firm was still in the Secretan family at the end of the century.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Appareil pour démontrer les lois de la réflexion et de la réfraction de la lumière,” in Lerebours et Secretan, <i>Catalogue et Prix des Instruments d’Optique, de Physique, de Chimie</i> (Paris, 1853), p. 39.
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: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: University of South Carolina
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.315119
label: catalog number
content: 315119
label: accession number
content: 215563
objectType: label: Object Name
content: reflection of light apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: dial: 13 1/2 in; 34.29 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 in x 12 5/8 in x 13 in; 53.34 cm x 32.0675 cm x 33.02 cm