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Description: | none MANU unsigned circa 1930 This is an anatomical razor strop in the form of a strap of leather mounted under tension on felt streched over a wooden block so that the leather can flex. The strop was used for sharpening the blades of razors and knives used in microtomes. There is no grinding or lapping agent apart from the texture of the surface of the leather.
Thin sections for the microscopical investigation of tissues were first mentioned by the inventor of the compoud microscope Robert Hooke in his Micrographia, published in London in 1665, in which he describes using a sharp knife to prepare specimens of cork. In 1770 John Hill published a description of his microtome for cutting sections of wood, copies of which were manufactured by Jesse Ramsden. In 1839, the French instrument maker Charles Chevalier (1804-1859) first introduced the term "microtome" to science. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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