set of microscope objectives
Date1888
Inventory Number1067b
ClassificationMicroscope Objective
Subject
Maker
Ernst Leitz (company)
1849 - 1986
User
Stephen C. Martin
died 1893
Cultural Region
Place of Origin
Dimensionscase: 4.5 × 5.2 × 5.7 cm (1 3/4 × 2 1/16 × 2 1/4 in.)
objective #3: 2.9 × 1.9 × 1.9 cm (1 1/8 × 3/4 × 3/4 in.)
objective #3: 2.9 × 1.9 × 1.9 cm (1 1/8 × 3/4 × 3/4 in.)
Material
Accessoriesmagnification card (missing)
DescriptionThree brass objectives marked 3, 5, and 7 are stored in a fitted wooden box lined in brown silk and covered in tooled leather. The latch is brass.
A magnification card originally in the box with the microscope is now missing. It was dated March 10, 1888.
[The box of objectives is stored in the main case of the microscope, 1067a.]
A magnification card originally in the box with the microscope is now missing. It was dated March 10, 1888.
[The box of objectives is stored in the main case of the microscope, 1067a.]
Signedunsigned
ProvenanceDr. Stephen Crosby Martin, Harvard Medical School, 1874; Presented by his widow in 1895 to Ernst-Lewis Collection (inv. no. 67), Harvard Medical School.
Historical AttributesThe microscope (1067a) to which these objectives belong was owned by Dr. Stephen C. Martin and was presented by his widow in 1895. Formerly No. 67.
Ernst Leitz
Date: 1910-1920
Accessories: case; key; magnification card.
Object number: 2008-1-0054
Ernst Leitz (company)
Date: 1935-1940
Accessories: oculars (3 pairs): 4X, 5XB, 6XB; objective/condensers (4): 11, 3.8X, 22-100, and UO 6.5; magnification table; standing case.
Object number: 2009-1-0065
Ernst Leitz (company)
Date: 1887
Accessories: non-RMS objectives (2): 3, 7; case for objectives (1103b); oculars (2): 1, 3; cup diaphragms (3); magnification table; glass slides (4); cover slip; case for microscope
Object number: 1103a
Ernst Leitz (company)
Date: 1888
Accessories: objectives (5): Leitz immersion 1/12 and 1/20, objectives 3, 5, 7 in leather covered wooden fitted box [1067b]; oculars (3): 0, 1, 3; dark field and disk diaphragms (2); cup diaphragms (3) with slide holder; Abbe condenser; extra substage mirror; iris diaphram and mirror on one bracket; microscope case with key; Leitz Bi-centric darkfield condenser Model B in brown leather shaped box [1167d]; set of test slides in a wooden box [1167c]
Object number: 1067a
Nachet et Fils (I)
Date: 1862-1880
Object number: 1025b
Ernst Leitz (company)
Date: circa 1892
Accessories: Leitz objectives in cans (3): 7, 3, 2; empty can # 7; cup diaphragms (3); ocular: 1; magnification table; standing case
Object number: 1100
Jean Alfred Nachet
Date: 1880-1890
Object number: 1107b
Camille Sébastien Nachet
Date: 1845-1850
Object number: 1081b
