Microscope Museum

Collection of antique microscopes and other scientific instruments

 

    

Microscope 479 (Unassigned maker; student microscope; c. 1860)

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Microscope 479 is a student microscope and should be dated to c. 1860. The instrument is not signed but its body is identical to other instruments made by Amadio in the 19th century (Figure 1). The instrument came with its original wooden box.

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Figure 1. Student microscope made by Amadio in 1867, as featured in a 2005 catalogue of the Science Museum in London.