Dual Prism
date: label: date made
content: 1800-1845
name: label: Maker
content: Lerebours
notes: label: Description
content: This device, two glass prisms hinged together and mounted on a brass stand, demonstrates the construction of achromatic lenses. The “Lerebours à Paris” inscription refers to either the instrument maker, Noël Jean Lerebours (1761-1840), or to his adopted son, Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours (1807-1873).
label: Description
content: Ref: N. J. Lerebours, <i>Notice d’Instruments d’Optique, de Mathématiques, et de Physique</i> (Paris, 1830), p. 7.
label: Description
content: Lerebours et Secretan, <i>Catalogue et Prix des Instruments</i> (Paris, 1853), p. 35.
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: Mount St. Mary’s College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.326114
label: catalog number
content: 326114
label: accession number
content: 257245
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dual prism
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 3 in; 25.4 cm x 7.62 cm