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Figures 253-256. Gould's Improved Compound Microscope
- 1840
Illustrations depicting a box-mounted microscope made by Charles Gould (ca. 1786-1849), and two larger improved compound microscopes. These are the first entries in the catalog listing microscopes.
Figure 253. This microscope is recommended to the naturalist, mineralogist, and botanist, for its extreme portability and high magnifying power, being sufficient to discover the most minute animaculae, see vessels, &c. It has also the uses of the single, compound, opaque, and aquatic Microscopes...
Figure 254. Gould's Microscope as set up for use.
Figure 255. Larger improved Compound Microscope, containing in addition to the above, condenser & silver speculum for opaque objects, £3. 3s.
Figure 256. Third-size ditto, with joint for the convenience of slanting the Microscope, containing condenser and 2 silver speculums, £5. 5s.
Illustrations are part of Palmer's New Catalogue by Edward Palmer (1803-1872), regarded as the earliest, freely-accessible sales catalog of commercially available chemicals and scientific apparatus. The catalog provides insight into the costs and considerations of equipping laboratories during the early Victorian period. Featuring 292 engraved figures, the catalog is digitized in its entirety.
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Palmer, Edward. “Figures 253-256. Gould's Improved Compound Microscope.” In Palmer's New Catalogue, with Three Hundred Engravings of Apparatus, Illustrative of Chemistry, Pneumatics, Frictional and Voltaic Electricity, Electro Magnetism, Optics, &c. London, England: William Gilbert, 1840. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/nk61zfx.
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