Essays on the Microscope

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1. 1ESSAYS ON THE MICROSCOPE.
2. 2PREFACE.
3. 3A LIST OF THE AUTHORS WHICH HAVE BEEN CONSULTED IN THE COMPILATION OF THE FORMER AND PRESENT EDITION OF THESE ESSAYS.
4. 4ADVERTISEMENT.
5. 5CONTENTS.
6. 6ERRATA.
7. 7LIST OF THE PLATES, WITH REFERENCES TO THE PAGES WHERE THE SEVERAL FIGURES ARE DESCRIBED.
8. 8CHAP. I. A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE INVENTION AND IMPROVEMENTS WHICH HAVE BEEN MADE UPON THE INSTRUMENT CALLED A MICROSCOPE.
9. 9TO MAKE SMALL GLASS MICROSCOPIC GLOBULES.
10. 10CHAP. II. OF VISION; OF THE OPTICAL EFFECT OF MICROSCOPES, AND OF THE MANNER OF ESTIMATING THEIR MAGNIFYING POWERS.
11. 11OF THE SINGLE MICROSCOPE.
12. 12OF THE DOUBLE OR COMPOUND MICROSCOPE.
13. 13OF THE SOLAR MICROSCOPE.
14. 14OF THE MAGNIFYING POWERS OF THE MICROSCOPE.
15. 15OF THE NEEDLE MICROMETER.
16. 16ACCOUNT OF GLASS, PEARL, c. MICROMETERS, BY THE EDITOR.
17. 17CHAP. III. A DESCRIPTION OF THE MOST APPROVED MICROSCOPES, AND THE METHOD OF USING THEM.
18. 18DESCRIPTION OF ADAMS’S IMPROVED AND UNIVERSAL LUCERNAL MICROSCOPE. Fig. 1. Plate III.

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