Microscopes - Early works to 1800

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Optical essays , Containing, I. A practical description of the several sorts of single, solar, and compound microscops; with their apparatus, and latest improvments. II. The nature of vision in insects demonstrated by microscopic observations. III. A catalogue of all principal microscopic objects. IV. The use of the reflecting telescope as an universal perspective for viewing every sort of object in the greatest perfection. V. The manner of computing the magnifying power in single and double microscopes. VI. A new method of applying a micrometer to take the dimension: of small objects. VII. An illustration of the whole in a great variety of figures on a large copper-plate. By B. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1761?]
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A description of the most valuable kinds of microscopes now in use Viz. The pocket microscope, together with the new invention for fixing it on a pedestal, and giving light to objects by a speculum; the double reflection microscope; the microscope for viewing opake objects; and the solar, or camera obscura microscope. As they are made and sold by John Cuff, against Serjeant's-Inn Gate in Fleet-street. With a particular account of the use and application of the several parts of the apparatus belonging to each kind.
Cuff, John, ca. 1708-1772.Date: [1758?]
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The description of a double and single microscope. Very convenient to observe all sorts of objects
Cuff, John, ca. 1708-1772.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]
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An essay on the genuine construction of a standard microscope and telescope With the application of a prismatic or catadioptric eye-piece to refracting and reflecting telescopes, by which their lengths are much contracted, their fields of view encreased, and their uses greatly facilitated; particularly in the reflector of Cassegrain's form for celestial observations. By B. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]
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L'exercise du microscope, contenant un abregé de tout ce qui a été ecrit par les meilleurs autheurs touchant les objets les plus curieux: avec les precautions qu'on doit prendre pour faire les observations avec succes. Anquel est ajouté La description d'un microscope, qu'on peut appeller universel, d'autant qu'on y trouve les proprietez de toutes les differentes sortes quiayent encore parues. Construit sur un nouveau plan, par François Watkins
Watkins, Francis, 1723-1782.Date: 1754