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John Cuthbert (1783-1854) was a respected optician who made a number of reflecting telescopes. In 1826 he began making a small number of reflecting microscopes in response to the demand to improve the resolution of the microscope image which suffered from chromatic aberration. Lister's publication in 1830 of the new design of refracting objective made the reflecting microscope redundant.