The significance of this important microscope rests on the superb quality of the objective lens, from which distortion and colour change effects were eliminated to a greater degree than ever before. It was designed in 1826 by Joseph Jackson Lister, father of the surgeon Joseph Lister, and made by London optical instrument maker James Smith. As a result of Lister's work, the compound microscope was established as a serious research instrument.

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