Getty Museum's Devices of Wonder.

Posted by Alex in Everything Else on April 21, 2006 at 2:02 am


The Getty Museum has a very cool interactive "edutainment" exhibition featuring vintage devices from the wunderkammer (cabinet of curiosities) of 1600s to the 1800s.

This particular one is a French compound microscope c. 1751:

Luxurious microscope like this one were made for wealthy Europeans, who maintained collections of natural specimens in the manner of Renaissance Wunderkabinette (cabinets of wonder). This compound microscope possesses a micrometric stage and an ocular micrometer devised to allow measurement of specimens.

Link (via WFMU Beware of the Blog)

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One comment to "Getty Museum's Devices of Wonder."

  1. pam
    April 22nd, 2006 at 4:22 pm

    cool stuff! the website drove me batty though! :)


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