M0000214: Nachet collection: boxfoot Cuff microscope
- Date:
- August 1929
- Reference:
- WT/D/1/20/1/3/74
- Part of:
- Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Collection contents
About this work
Also known as
Previous title, replaced May 2020: Nachet collection: microscope made by Magny
Description
Image of a boxfoot Cuff microscope made in the mid to late eighteenth century supposedly by Magny, microscope maker to King Louis XV of France. The Nachet Collection was a large set of microscopes collected by Albert Nachet and acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (accession number R224/1949). The microscope is now held by the Science Museum (object number: A60952).
Publication/Creation
August 1929
Physical description
1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm
Related material
Wellcome Collection holds the Nachet Collection dossier
Notes
Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.
Terms of use
Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.
Subjects
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesBy appointment Manual request