UK and Ireland Archives - Page 18 of 93

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THE REMOVABLE DOMED LID REVEALS SPECIMEN PIN AND LENS, LOWER SECTION CONTAINS, MONOCULAR AND LENS WITHIN THE BASE, SOME TARNISHING TO BRASS. Read More...

27 Aug

SILVER FOLDING AND LOCKING MEDICINE SPOON, HALLMARKED by WRIGHT & DAVIS DATED 1866, GOOD COND.

By Opticalworld

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NOTHING BROKEN , NO REPAIRS, EXCELLENT CONDITION , MADE BY WRIGHT & DAVIS IN LONDON IN 1866, WORKS WELL. Read More...

26 Aug

Fine Antique Moritz Pillischer – Improved Medical Microscope in Brass – c1870, Cased

By Arcboutant Scientific

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Offered for sale is a fine collectable example of an antique monocular brass microscope by quality makers Moritz Pillischer Opticians of London. The instrument is numbered 1218 and will date to around sometime in the 1870s or possibly into the 1880s. It’s a generally very good condition, usable instrument with a couple of minor condition issues noted in the body of the listing text, that also makes a stunning and imposing display piece. Background to M Pillischer Opticians Moritz Pillischer emigrated Read More...

25 Aug

Seven draw telescope – Pizzala, Hatton Garden.

By Scientific Inspirations

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A brass 7 draw telescope with a baleen covered barrel, signed on the first draw, ‘Pizzala, Optician, 19 Hatton Garden, Holborn, London’. Francis A. Pizzala worked at this address from 1851 – 60. It measures 13 cms when closed and 58 cms fully open. The main lens is 34 mm diameter. It gives an excellent clear view. Read More...

24 Aug

~GOOD ROSS No. 1 MONOCULAR POLARISING MICROSCOPE~

By ScientificaOpticae

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Bearing number 1750, this pre-RMS monocular stands a huge 24 inches tall. Bar limb construction on splayed claw foot, it retains about 80% of it’s original lacquer (most wear is on the foot-see photo). Geared and racked fully rotatable square stage and a substage condenser/polariser, this microscope has limited accessories. 2 C (short and long) and D eyepieces (looking for A and B although the diameter is odd on these pre-RMS models) and two magnificent objectives (1/4 and 1/12 Read More...

23 Aug

~GOOD MOGINIE SIMPLE/COMPOUND MICROSCOPE~

By ScientificaOpticae

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Standing 12 inches tall, this simple/ compound microscope has unusual form and function. Created by William Moginie c.1860, it incorporates elegant form and function. Having a pair of turned brass legs in front to add stability (tripod design), a single sided 1 1/2 inch mirror, 4 inch bevelled glass stage insert, this field instrument has the option of compound use with a single “female” 1 1/2 inch signed objective in canister, a simple lens to be inserted from the Read More...

23 Aug

Large Antique T. Harris & Son ‘Day or Night’ Single-draw Brass/Wooden Telescope

By Arcboutant Scientific

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Offered for sale is an antique brass & wooden telescope by Thomas Harris & Son of London. It’s called the “Day or Night” and may be an Admiralty pattern telescope, or in any event one designed for marine applications. It’s quite a sizable single-draw instrument – see measurements below. With both its size and the warm tactile nature of its wooden barrel, the instrument has a really nice look and feel and is also nicely weighted and perfectly usable. Read More...

22 Aug

C1870 cased Lowne spirometer by Weiss

By M and R Gordon

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Lowne portable spirometer by Weiss & Son. The instrument and mahogany case are original. The tubing, mouthpiece and glass are replacements. Given that the case has no room for the glass, it was apparently sold separately or clinicians supplied their own. “Spirometers were developed in England in the 1840s. They measured the ‘vital capacity’ of the lungs. This means the largest amount of air they can hold, which can indicate the health of the respiratory system. They also indicated improvement Read More...

21 Aug

Copper printing plates for a pharmacist, c.1890

By Boris Jardine Rare Books

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An attractive group of printing artefacts: five small copper printing plates, one for a pharmaceutical label, one showing a pestle and mortar, one with a Royal coat of arms, and two indicating membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. These appear to be ‘unnoficial’ productions, as they have not been identified with any official Pharmaceutical Society ephemera. Moreover, the Coat of Arms does not match the RPS’s Arms, as granted in 1844: here the central panel is replaced with ‘Member of Read More...

21 Aug

C.S. Myers on Shell Shock: Exceptionally scarce offprint group, 1915–1919

By Boris Jardine Rare Books

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Charles S. Myers’ foundational account of ‘shell shock’, as published in The Lancet, 1915–1919, comprising three offprints: 1. ‘A Contribution to the Study of Shell Shock: Being an Account of Three Cases of Loss of Memory, Vision, Smell, and Taste, Admitted into the Duchess of Westminster’s War Hospital, Le Touquet’, The Lancet, 13 February 1915 2. ‘Contributions to the Study of Shell Shock: Being an Account of Certain Cases Treated by Hypnosis’, The Lancet, 8 January 1916 [two copies] 3. ‘A Final Read More...

20 Aug

~FINE BAKER No. 2 BINOCULAR MICROSCOPE~

By ScientificaOpticae

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Fine Baker binocular No. 2 microscope standing 18 inches tall (fully racked up) with 95% original lacquer (no areas of wear-slight spotting of body tubes). Bar limb construction, all rack and pinions very tight. Large 2 1/2 inches double sided mirror (perfect). Square mechanical stage. 6 objectives (3 , 2, 1 , 1/2, 4/10 and 1/4 inch), 4 eyepieces (two for binocular, one short and one long for monocular, prism intact and cover to use when not in binocular mode, Read More...

17 Aug

The origin of precision astronomy: The Hooke-Gascoigne micrometer in the Philosophical Transactions, 1667

By Boris Jardine Rare Books

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A decisive moment in the history of science: William Gascoigne invents the micrometer, communicated here by Richard Towneley and Robert Hooke in two issues of the Philosophical Transactions for 1667 (nos 25 & 29). Comprising: 1. TOWNELEY, Richard, ‘An Extract of a Letter, Written by Mr. Richard Towneley to Dr. Croon, Touching the Invention of Dividing a Foot into Many Thousand Parts, for Mathematical Purposes; HOOKE, Robert, ‘More Wayes for the Same Purpose, Intimated by M. Hook’, Philosophical Transactions No. 25 Read More...