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OPTICS
1 METALLIC CONCAVE MIRROR ON A MERCURY SHAPED STAND
2 GREGORIAN REFLECTING TELESCOPE
3 THREE EQUILATERAL AND ADJUSTABLE PRISMS [A]: BI-PRISM FOR ACHROMATISM [B] - CONICAL PRISM FOR A CIRCULAR SPECTRUM [C] - ISOSCELES HOLLOW GLASS PRISM FOR LIQUID [D]
4 DOUBLE-CONVEX LENS ON BRASS STAND - PLANO-CONVEX LENS ON BRASS STAND - PLANO-CONCAVE LENS ON BRASS STAND - DOUBLE-CONCAVE LENS ON BRASS STAND
5 OPTICAL BENCH
6 CRYSTAL GONIOMETER (WOLLESTON'S DESIGN)
7 RHOMBOID OF ICELAND SPAR
8 BIOT'S POLARIMETER
9 NORREMBERG'S POLARIZING APPARATUS
10 SOLAR MICROSCOPE WITH WINDOW SHUTTER
11 POLARISCOPE
12 APPARATUS FOR STUDYING THE REFRACTION, INTERFERENCE AND DIFFRACTION OF LIGHT
13 NEWTON'S RINGS
14 COMPOUND MICROSCOPE CUFF-TYPE
15 SET OF THIRTEEN TRANSPARENT OBJECTS IN BONE SLIDES
16 SIMPLE MICROSCOPE
17 SET OF SEVENTEEN WOODEN SLIDERS FOR PROJECTION
18 CAMERA LUCIDA
19 CAMERA OBSCURA
20 THE TENT CAMERA OBSCURA
21 BREWSTER'S STEREOSCOPE
22 PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERA WITH ACCESSORIES
23 GEODETIC CIRCLE
24 ENDOSCOPE


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The tent camera obscura [1] Camera oscura a prisma da tenda [2]
Subject: optics/portable sketching lands capes device Settore: Ottica/apparato portatile da disegno
Number of catalogue: 387 Numero di inventario: 387
Secretan à Paris [document] Secretan à Paris [documento]
1865 [document] Periodo di costruzione: 1865 [documento]
£ 100 [document] Prezzo d'acquisto: £ 100 [documento]
Brass, glass Materiali utilizzati: Ottone, vetro
Ø max. 92 mm; height: 180 mm Dimensioni: Ø max. 92 mm, altezza: 180 mm
   

[1] From a request for funding by Serpieri, dated March 29, 1865, in order to purchase instruments sending from the Persian mechanic Secretan: Large camera obscura - for landscapes and portraits - with tents, table and stand - all closed in a portable chest. Acts of the Commission, Archive of Urbino University.

[2] Da una richiesta di fondi (firmata dal Serpieri e datata 29 marzo 1865) relativa al pagamento di alcuni apparecchi spediti dal meccanico parigino Secretan: "Grande camera oscura - per paesaggi e per ritratti - con cortine, tavolo e cavalletti - il tutto chiuso in cassetta portatile". Atti della Commissione, Archivio dell'Università di Urbino.

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