Optical Instruments: Microscopes, Binoculars, Sextans, Theodolits, Hand Scopes

This May 9, 1947 50 centimes airmail stamp (Sc #C16) of Monaco depicts U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt holding a stamp between his thumb and one of his other fingers (6 of them, counting the thumb) as he examines it with a magnifying glass.

Christmas Islands

1977

Definitives, famous visitors - 16v

Willem Hesselsz de Vlamingh (1640 – c.#8201;1698) was a Dutch sea captain who explored the central west coast of New Holland (Australia) in the late 17th century, where he landed in what is now Perth on the Swan River. The mission proved fruitless, but he charted parts of the continent's western coast.

The stamp shows the bust of captain Willem at right and the comand room of his ship at second plane with navigation artifacts, including a maritime telescope

Isle of Man
Gaiety Theatre Centenary
July 16, 2000
Set of six, one stamp depicts opera glasses.

Soviet Union

1966

International congresses - 3v

The stamp refers to the Microbiology International Congress, showing a microscope, Moscow University, bacteria and viruses

Here is the 18c value (Sc #544) from the Philippines's May 22, 1950 set of 3 identically designed stamps commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Philatelic Association of the Philippines. As on the Monegasque stamp shown four postings above, U.S. President F.D.R. is holding a magnifying glass in his right hand and a postage stamp in his left hand.

Greece
Stamp Day
November 15, 1972
The design depicts a young philatelist enjoying his stamp collection.

On February 14, 1975 the Dominican Republic issued this two-stamp set (Sc #s736-7) to commemorate the birth centenary of Fernando Defillo, M.D. (1874-1949).

Colombia

1985

50 years of Escuela Naval Almirante Padilla - 1v

The stamp depicts a navy man using a sextans

This 60 kopeks value (Sc #2325) was issued by the USSR on May 28, 1960 to publicize Philatelists' Day.

Cuba

1965

Carlos J. Finlay - 7v

The serie remembers the 50 years of death of Calos Finlay (1833 - 1915), a Cuban epidemiologist recognized as a pioneer in the research of yellow fever, determining that it was transmitted through mosquitoes Aedes aegypti. A monocular microscope is depicted in the stamp

Nicaragua 1971.
Sextant in stamp of Napier's Law (logarithms)

Palau

Hubble - 3 s/s

This souvenir sheet depicts the north-american astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble (1889 – 1953) inspecting a photographic plate using a magnifiyng glass. Edwin Hubble played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology.





The original b/w picture

On April 20, 1970 Australia issued a se-tenant strip of five, 5c stamps to commemorate the bicentenary of Captain James Cook's landing on the eastern coast of the island. One of these stamps (Sc #478) depicts a sextant.

Here is the 4 p value (Sc #214) from Gibraltar's July 1, 1968 two-stamp set commemorating the 20th anniversary of the World Health Organization (UN).

Japan

2013

Noguchi Hideyo - Africa Prize - 2v

One more japanese stamp honoring Hideyo Noguchi.

Hideyo Noguchi (1876 – 1928), also known as Seisaku Noguchi, was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist who in 1911 discovered the agent of syphilis as the cause of progressive paralytic disease