The microscope; its history, construction, and applications / [Jabez Hogg].

  • Hogg, Jabez, 1817-1899
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1854
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    CONTENTS PART I. HISTORT OF THE INVENTION AND IMPROVEMENTS' OF THE MICROSCOPE. CHAPTER L Derivation, and period of invention. Known before Christ. Single microscopes of Leeuwenhoek, Swammerdam, Lyonet, and Ellis. Lieberkuhn’s reflecting instruments in the Royal College of Surgeons. Leeuwenhoek’s microscopes ; Dr. Hooke’s. Stephen Gray’s glass globules. Dr. Hooke’s compound instru- ment. Divini’s. object-glasses. Bonnani’s, Martin’s, Sir Isaac Newton’s, Dr. Barker’s, and Dr. Smith’s discoveries. Lieberkuhn’s solar microscope. Baker’s, Dr. Hill’s, M. Delabarre’s, and Mr. G. Adams’ published accounts of the microscope. Frauenhofer’s, Pelligne’s, Chevalier’s, and Amici’s experi- ments. Tufley’s, Dr. Goring’s, and Lister’s experiments. Amici's achromatic glasses. Sir John Herschel’s, Airy’s, Barlow’s, Coddington’s, and Lister’s combinations. Mr. Ross’s improvements. Dr. Goring’s, Solly’s, Bower- bank’s,, and Valentine’s improvements and assistance. Reports of the Juries of the Great Exhibition on the instruments manufactured by the London makers Page 1 CHAPTER H. Mechanical and optical principles involved in the construction of the modern microscope. Mode of estimating the magnifying power. Rays of light passing through transparent media. Forms of lenses. Refraction of light through lenses, and method of tracing the progress of rays. Spherical aberration of lenses. Sir John Herschel’s and Coddington’s lenses. Chro- matic and achromatic aberration of lenses. Limit of distinct vision through lenses. Dr. Wollaston’s doublet. Holland’s eye-piece. Wollaston and Coddington’s lenses. Stanhope lens. Ross’s simple microscope. Valen- tine’s simple microscope. The compound microscope, Mr. Ross’s remarks upon. Lister’s, Powell’s, Tulley’s, and Ross’s improvements. Mr. Ross’s correction of object-glasses,, Mr. Varley’s corrections of the eye-piece. Huy- ghenian and micrometer eye-pieces. Mr. Lister’s stage-micrometer. Mr. Jackson’s eye-piece micrometer. Dr. Hannover’s table of comparative mea- sures. M. Nobert’s glass micrometers. Sets of eye-pieces, their value.