Object Details
maker
Duboscq-Soleil
Description
This type of solar microscope was introduced around 1740 and was still popular in the nineteenth century. The “Duboscq Soleil / à Paris” inscription on the tube of this example refers to Jules Duboscq (1817-1886), an important French optical instrument maker who apprenticed with J. B. F. Soleil, married one of his daughters, took charge of part of the firm following Soleil’s retirement in 1849, and used the “Duboscq Soleil” signature for a few years.
Ref: Deborah Warner, “Projection Apparatus for Science in Antebellum America,” Rittenhouse 6 (1992): 87-94.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Brown University
ID Number
PH.315379
accession number
218984
catalog number
315379
Object Name
Solar Microscope
Measurements
mirror: 11 in x 5 in; 27.94 cm x 12.7 cm
overall: 9 in x 9 1/8 in x 23 in; 22.86 cm x 23.1775 cm x 58.42 cm
place made
France: Île-de-France, Département de Ville-de-Paris
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Science & Scientific Instruments
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1519158