Leeuwenhoek's simple microscope (replica)
Date: 1967
Inventory Number: 1269b
Classification: Microscope
Subject:
Maker: Arie de Vink (fl. 1967)
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Dimensions:
7.5 x 2.8 x 1.7 cm (2 15/16 x 1 1/8 x 11/16 in.)
Description:
Two plates of brass are riveted together and secure the glass-bead lens between them. The specimen pin is on a threaded shaft that travels through a bracket on the back of the plate in order to raise and lower the specimen in front of the lens. The focus is another threaded screw that goes perpendicularly through the specimen shaft in order to shift the specimen closer or farther from the lens.
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Inscribedstamped: COPIE / LEIDEN