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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    and valued. Every lens named is familiar to me, and the list (again necessarily almost confined to the more moderate prices) will be found both catholic and trustworthy. As to manipulation, endeavour was made chiefly to recall from my own early experience what the beginner most needs to know, and to tell him about it so simply that he may get to know it, for practical purposes. The experienced worker is not pretended to be instructed in this book ; and the beginner who uses it will be the best judge how far its more modest objects have been attained. The later chapters are necessarily only outlines : opinions may well differ as to how these have been drawn, though no part received more anxious consideration. A miscellaneous illustrated list of ‘ objects ’ did not promise to be of any particular use : any really systematic treatment was forbidden by the narrow limits : what was it best to do ? The idea finally adopted was to endeavour to make students, rather than to teach them. For this, it seemed best to blend into such broad and popular descriptions as might perhaps interest even a general reader, hints and suggestions as to personal courses of study, or lines of investigation, or even systematic and intelligent in place of random collection of objects—to suggest, in fact, definite work to clo, which might maintain the Microscope in its place as a valued companion through life. Some attempt is at the same time made to convey a sense of that unity of Nature, through all its diversity, in which the present writer profoundly believes. My sincere thanks are due to Messrs. Beck, Swift, Baker, and Watson, for having, besides their own stands (which makers are naturally willing to advertise) placed at my disposal numerous illustrations of those subsidiary appliances common to all. They are more specially due to
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