Optics

8mm projection device

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Made in France (Lens: Japan)

Part of solar microscope

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Used at the First Gymnasium of Athens, in Plaka.
"The solar microscope is in reality a magic lantern illuminated by the sun's rays; it serves to produce highly magnified images of very small objects. It is worked in a dark room"
Ref: http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/Optics/Solar_Microscope/Solar_M...

Apparatus after Kruss

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The apparatus is probably made by Krüss company.

Equaliser after Soleil

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Probably made by Duboscq

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