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Musée-Site Buffon, à Montbard
Cuff type microscope
John Cuff
1708-1772
H: 43 cm L: 15 cm
Buffon Museum-site
John Cuff perfected the first composite microscopes. In Alexandre Roslin's painting (1785, Orleans Museum) of Daubenton, a microscope of this type can be seen.
