A popular handbook to the microscope / by Lewis Wright.

  • Lewis Wright
Date:
1895
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Credit: A popular handbook to the microscope / by Lewis Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that proved such teaching due to sheer ignorance and not to superior knowledge, and, if it could not reveal the Divine mystery of living existence, at least manifested it to us as a greater Mystery than ever. The Microscope, then, has deserved well of the Christian believer ; and it is to be hoped that this may not be the last work the Religious Tract Society may see fit to publish con- cerning the marvels it unfolds to us, upon which part of the subject very limited space has prevented any enlargement in this little volume. For space has made my task a difficult one, every page requiring anxious consideration as to how best to use it. In those devoted to apparatus, it seemed most useful to follow the example of my friend the late Dr. Carpenter, and show each reader straightforwardly, what he could get for a given expenditure. In presenting such types of instrument as alone fall within the plan of a book only elementary and introductory, there has been absolute impartiality. There is indeed hardly a manufacturing firm of standing, from which I have not received some personal kindness, and there are several to whose workshops I have been frankly admitted, long before this book was proposed to me. As I knew enough of tools and workmanship in my youth to have made a fair microscope myself had I cared, such means of forming a practical judgment have been valuable; and since every stand mentioned has been carefully examined, confidence may be placed in the opinions expressed, even where (as in some cases) they differ from others as to the merits of certain details. Of objectives also I have had unusual opportunities for judging, a very large number having passed through my hands, including I believe nearly all of any repute, and in many cases the very first specimens of lenses now well known
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