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Culpeper-type compound microscope, around 1760

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Description

This microscope is based on a design developed by Edward Culpeper between 1725 and 1730. The body tube was used for focusing. On the base, instead of a flat mirror, Culpeper designed a concave mirror which both reflected and concentrated light up onto the specimen held in the ivory viewing slider.