M0000215: Natchet Collection: Mechanical stage plate, camera lucida and binocular ophthalmoscope

Date:
August 1929
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/3/75
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M0000215: Natchet Collection: Mechanical stage plate, camera lucida and binocular ophthalmoscope. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Platform of turrel; camera lucida; ophthalmoscope binoculas

Description

Image of a mechanical stage plate with 2-way motion (late nineteenth century), camera lucida (c.1850) and binocular ophthalmoscope (late nineteenth century). The Nachet Collection was a large set of microscopes collected by Albert Nachet and acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. The stage plate and ophthalmoscope are now held by the Science Museum (object number: A63000 and A63003). The camera lucida (accession number 63002) is not held by Wellcome Collection.

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.

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