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John Cuff
British, 1708-1792
Cuff-type Portable Microscope
c. 1760
Brass, glass, ivory, mahogany box
Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation
2009.3
At a meeting of the Royal Society in the winter of 1738-1739, John Cuff, a talented instrument maker in London, met Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn, a German physician who had come to England to promote two microscopes. After watching Lieberkühn's demonstration, Cuff took great pains to improve these instruments. Henry Baker, Fellow of the Royal Society and author of The Microscope Made Easy, helped Cuff to publish his invention.
Manufactured a few decades after Edmund Culpeper’s microscope, the Cuff-type microscope improved on the previous design and soon took over the market of small microscopes that appealed to amateur scientists in the 18th century.
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