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1531405328Code A96 Camera lucidaBrass camera lucida with two filters from the first half of the 19th century, signed by Vincent Chevalier Ingenieur Opticien Paris (1770-1841), famous French optical engineer, who succeeded his father Luois Vincent Chevalier (1743-1800) founder of the Chevalier maison 31 of Quai de l'Horloge, specialized in the development of achromatic lenses for microscopes. Instrument placed in its original mahogany box. Good condition. Box 27x10 cm - 10.62x3.93 inches.

This is an optical instrument used as an aid to the drawing, as the camera lucida allows to optically overlay the image to be drawn on the sheet on which it is being drawn. It was widely used by illustrators in the manuals of histology and anatomy and also by portraitists who could sketch the scene and the person to be portrayed overlapping them. This instrument was patented in 1806 by William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828), a British chemist and physicist, inventor and innovator, who was also interested in crystallography and metallurgy.

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