National Museum of American History
Diasporameter
Unknown artist
Alexis-Marie de Rochon (1741-1817) was a French astronomer and physicist who, in 1776, devised a “diasporameter” for measuring the dispersion of prisms of various substances. This unsigned example was probably made in Paris in the mid-nineteenth century.
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