M0000214: Nachet collection: boxfoot Cuff microscope

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Nachet collection: microscope made by Magny

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).

August 1929

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the Nachet Collection dossier

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.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.