Leeuwenhoek microscope Size:S: 60 x 45cm 'In Bridewell beating hemp'

'In Bridewell beating hemp'

'Steward's Court of the Manor of Torre Devon'

'Two Cats'

Royal Military Asylum

although charges of high treason were never proved

Leeuwenhoek microscope Size:S: 60 x 45cm 'In Bridewell beating hemp'Microscope designed by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek incorporating a concave metal speculum or brass dish to assist in light gathering, with the magnifying lens at its centre. Front and rear views of the instrument. Baker argues that this microscope design is similar in style to one within a set presented to the Royal Society: 'This microscope, with its dish (which I give an exact Copy of from the Picture in his Works) seems so like our opake Microscope with