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1488276919Code 5576 Travel microscopeBrass microscope signed W & S. Jones 30 Holborn London made in the early nineteenth century. It is a microscope mounted on the cover of its original mahogany box. Very good condition, in order. Closed box measures 18.5x15.3 cm h 6.
This type of portable microscope was highly publicized and recommended for the remarkable ability to enlarge, both to naturalists and botanists.
William Jones (1763-1831) was a famous manufacturer of optical and scientific instruments. He founded a company with the youngest brother Samuel becoming among the most renowned manufacturers of scientific instruments in London in the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth century.
Nobody knows who invented the microscope, but you cannot deny that Galileo was the first one to develop the concept of microscopic observation and he was one of the first user of microscope as a scientific instrument. Already in 1610 he had made a microscope in the shape of an eyeglass to look at the organs of small animals: in 1614 he said to have seen with this instrument "flies as big as sheep" and he discovered that the flies had body hair and claws sharp. With the microscope it changed the knowledge of the world, in fact until the seventeenth century the knowledge of the structure of matter and of the infinitesimal life forms was very poor. At first they were not fully understood the potentials of this instrument ("Little more than a game, a nice tool that is hardly surprising for a few minutes, but that has not other utilities" was the judgment about microscope in 1700), but in the twentieth century the microscope has become the symbol of science, because of its many applications.
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