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Very interesting, I'm curious if the lenses are still there?

• dflock 9y ago
  I very much doubt it - those things weren't cheap and probably would have been repurposed, if possible.
  • Boothroid 9y ago
    Where do these things that are stolen end up? I wonder what is left nether.
• phlyingpenguin 9y ago
  Many of the scientific antiquities and papers of the UK end up at the Royal Society Library. Brady Haran has a nice video series named Objectivity[1] about objects in the archives done with their head librarian, Keith Moore[2]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtwKon9qMt5YLVgQt1tvJKg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtwKon9qMt5YLVgQt1tvJKg [2]: https://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science/author/keithmoore/ https://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science/author/kei...
  • anfractuosity 9y ago
    Cheers, I didn't realise the Royal Society had a library. Will check your links.
• macarthy12 9y ago
  Hooke was a master lens maker, and the inventor of the modern microscope.