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JAMES SMITH MICROSCOPE LIEBERKUHN REFLECTORS

lieberkuhns Lieberkuhns attach to the end of objectives. Their purpose is to allow illumination of opaque objects via reflected light. Johann Nathanael Lieberkuhn was an eighteenth century German physician, who, among other things developed the reflector that bears his name. His customized microscopes were quite famous in his day and called Wonder-glasses by his contemporaries.