Improved Stanhope Lens by Francis West of Fleet Street London J & WE Archbutt Clearly the device was not

Clearly the device was not ultimately successful for Biester but he was confident enough to show his work to Isaac Newton and The Royal Society which should give you a flavour of the circles in which the elder John Gilbert was already moving

Unlike many of its kind

the Stockholm exhibition of 1866 and the Paris exhibitions of 1867 and 1878 where the company found equal success

having not taken enough notice of the falling barometer

although the components have been stripped

Improved Stanhope Lens by Francis West of Fleet Street London J & WE Archbutt Clearly the device was notFor sale, a William IV period improved Stanhope lens by Francis West of 83 Fleet Street, London. The Stanhope lens so called because it was considered to have been invented by Charles, The Third Earl Stanhope, is a simple microscope comprised of glass cylinder with two convex ends and which could be used for rudimentary scientific investigation. It was popularised due to its easy accessibility to the public in a period when microscopy was a growing