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Schatzkammer der Optik
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leaflet
Optisches Museum der Ernst-Abbe-Stiftung
Europe: Germany, Thuringia, Jena
2012
paper
overall: 210 mm x 105 mm

Promotional leaflet for a temporary exhibition at the Optisches Museum, Jena, marking that museum's 90th anniversary. DL format printed in blue, yellow and white on six sides, folded. Front cover comprises a close-up photograph of an Austrian microscope objective and stage, with auxiliary prism, set against a background showing ray diagrams and an engraving of a man and woman using historic camera obscurae or peep shows. Inner pages include photographs of Dollond Cuff-type microscope in case, binocular microscope by Cherubin D'Orleans, Nurmeberg Masterpiece spectacles by Martin Zimmermann 1709 and an engraving of Louis XIV looking through a telescope. Text in German.


2012.586

Gift of the Ernst-Abbe-Stiftung, 2012


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