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probably made in Edinburgh

Microscope
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This brass microscope was made around 1825, probably by Alexander Adie, a scientific instrument maker based in Edinburgh.

The horizontal reflecting microscope has four alternative eye-pieces, and an internal arrangement in which the main optical component is a small diameter metal speculum mirror which reflects and magnifies the image along the tube to the observer.

The microscope's optical system is based on technological advances made by the Italian botanist, G.B. Amici of Modena, who also made reflecting microscopes. This was in an effort to bypass problems met in developing microscope objectives made in glass.

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