Microscopes - Early works to 1800
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13 works
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Lectures and collections / made by Robert Hooke.
Robert HookeDate: 1678- E-books
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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- Books
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Experimental philosophy, in three books : containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical : with some deductions, and probable hypotheses, raised from them, in avouchment and illustration of the now famous atomical hypothesis / by Henry Power.
Henry PowerDate: 1664- E-books
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Description du microscope de poche; fait et se vend par Pierre Dollond, opticien de sa majesté, et de son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le Duc d'York, demeurant dans Le Strand, à Londres
Dollond, Peter 1730-1820.Date: 1790- E-books
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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