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Demonstration box for eye diseases (1800 - 1850) - Wooden box with lid lined with red leather, brass handle in the middle of the lid. In the box 49 round cardboard box without lid, each containing a glass eyeball with disease symptoms. One glass eye is in a metal holder and there is one eye without box. Some have a paper with the disease in question. Photo of the Rijksmuseum Boerhave Collection Demonstration box for eye diseases (1800 - 1850) - Wooden box with lid lined with red leather, brass handle in the middle of the lid. In the box 49 round cardboard box without lid, each containing a glass eyeball with disease symptoms. One glass eye is in a metal holder and there is one eye without box. Some have a paper with the disease in question. Research by expert at the Boerhaave obstetric manikin Coloured frontispiece with Flora and cupids playing with butterflies (Merian) 1705 - 1705 Coloured engraving with orange tree, caterpillar and butterfly from Merian 1705 - 1705 Angular measuring instrument (1600 - 1700)


Rijksmuseum Boerhaave.


The collections of National Museum Boerhaave reflect five centuries of the history of science in the Netherlands and show you what science is all about: curiosity, audacity, creativity and perseverance.

The collection of National Museum Boerhaave has been expanded considerably since the beginning to include approx. 120,000 objects, books, prints and visual material at present. Among the highlights are the meridian telescope of Leiden Observatory, Albert Einstein’s fountain pen, the first haemodialysis machine by Willem Kolff, the paintings showing the Four Guises of the Physician, the Surinam Insect Book by Maria Sybilla Merian, as well as recent scientific inventions, such as the qubit, the building block of the quantum-computer which is currently developed by scientists.


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