The telescope and microscope / by Thomas Dick.

  • Thomas Dick
Date:
[1851?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The telescope and microscope / by Thomas Dick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE TELESCOPE AND MICROSCOPE. PART I. THE TELESCOPE. God has been pleased, in various ages, to guide men to those discoveries, which have enlarged their views of his perfections, and increased their knowledge and happiness. Among these discoveries may be placed the construction and the uses of the telescope. Section I.—The invention of the telescope. The telescope is an instrument for looking at distant objects. Its name is compounded of two Greek words, tele, at a distance, and scopein, to view,* By this instrument, the most distant TjjXe, cTKoneiy. A 2
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