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Shelfmark: 20081-0000 Musée des arts et métiers-CNAM  (Paris France) Suggestions & Corrections  
Type: instrument
Dimension: H.: 81; Diam.: 40
 
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Thematic group: Instruments 
Type: burning lens
Abstract: Small concave mirror in wooden frame mounted on semicircular arm for tiltil and for rotating on turned wooden upright on circular wooden base. The reverse is decorated with a figure inside multi-pointed star with flickering rays in gilt, corrisponding to the painted decoration and rays on the front of the frame
 
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Person City Cronology   Position
name: -
name: Paris
date/range: 1952
date of: donation
epoch: 20 (2°)
name: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
resp.: owner
name: Paris
date/range: 1774
date of: construction
epoch: 18 (2°)
 
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Discipline Topic Argument

Chemistry Apparatus Burning glass

 
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