Teylers Museum

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This accessory was bought by the Teylers Museum in Haarlem from the auction of his estate.

So this means that this science inti- institution was interested in buying material from the science popularizer.

And if you go to the main, you know, with the, with the, with the cases in the, the main hall of, uh, Teylers Museum, you see there the object of this polariscope that he used and that we have also newspaper reports, yeah, that we can find of him using this, uh, object, uh, in the Netherlands.

So that was something that I was very happy to find.

But, uh, yeah, it's a very, uh, uh, specific and very particular, uh, object.

And this we are talking mid 19th century of course.

So in a way we were very lucky to have Rinke van der Spek, the curator of, uh, Teylers Museum, who's, uh, also in our book and, uh, tells a lot about the history of, uh, illustrated lectures at Teylers Museum.