The microscope : its history, construction, and application, being a familiar introduction to the use of the instrument, and the study of microscopial science / By Jabez Hogg ... with upwards of five hundred engravings and coloured illustrations by Tuffen West.

  • Jabez Hogg
Date:
1867
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Credit: The microscope : its history, construction, and application, being a familiar introduction to the use of the instrument, and the study of microscopial science / By Jabez Hogg ... with upwards of five hundred engravings and coloured illustrations by Tuffen West. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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