Part of solar microscope

Used at the First Gymnasium of Athens, in Plaka.
"The solar microscope is in reality a magic lantern illuminated by the sun's rays; it serves to produce highly magnified images of very small objects. It is worked in a dark room"
Ref: http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/Optics/Solar_Microscope/Solar_M...

Data

Inventory Number: 

OPT22

Date: 

1850 (c.)

Dimensions: 

Mirror length : 22.5cm, Mirror width : 11cm, Tube diameter : 10cm

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