Leeuwenhoek Microscope (replica)
Charles DeVaux, Hanover, New Hampshire
1958
Overall: 3/4 × 3 in. (1.9 × 7.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
2002.1.34292
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Scientific Instrument
Research Area
Scientific Instrument
Scientific Instrument: Microscopy
Not on view
Provenance
Made by Charles T. DeVaux, May 1958 for Dr. Philip Nice, 202 Nathan Smith Laboratory, Dartmouth Medical School; given to the Dartmouth College Museum, 1958 [with the understanding that "it will be made available to the Medical School at such times as they may need it."); catalogued into the Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, 2002.
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