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The Microscope. Its History, Construction, and Application 15th ed.

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The Microscope. Its History, Construction, and Application 15th ed.

Jabez Hogg

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Jabez Hogg opens the whole microscopic world: radiolaria, algae, protozoa, and the delicate architecture of the very small. This great illustrated manual covers the instrument's history, construction, and application in full. Comprehensive, authoritative, and richly plated. The definitive Victorian guide to the microscope and its wonders. Peer through the lens at the teeming, invisible life all around and beneath us.

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  1. 1THE MICROSCOPE ITS HISTORY, CONSTRUCTION, AND APPLICATION BEING A FAMILIAR INTRODUCTION TO THE USE OF THE INSTRUMENT, AND THE STUDY OF MICROSCOPICAL SCIENCE By JABEZ HOGG, M.R.C.S., F.R.M.S., FORMERLY AND FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS SURGEON TO THE ROYAL WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL; PAST PRESIDENT OF THE MEDICAL MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY; HONORARY FELLOW OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA; OF THE MEDICO-LEGAL SOCIETY, NEW YORK; OF THE BELGIAN MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY, ETC.; AUTHOR OF “ELEMENTS OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY,” “A MANUAL OF OPHTHALMOSCOPIC SURGERY,” ETC. WITH UPWARDS OF NINE HUNDRED ENGRAVED AND COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS BY TUFFEN WEST AND OTHER ARTISTS An 18th Century Microscope. FIFTEENTH EDITION RE-CONSTRUCTED, RE-WRITTEN, REVISED, AND ENLARGED THROUGHOUT LONDON AND NEW YORK GEORGE ROUTLEDGE SONS, LIMITED 1898
  2. 2PREFACE TO THE FIFTEENTH EDITION.
  3. 3PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
  4. 4CONTENTS.
  5. 5DESCRIPTION OF PLATES, COLOURED AND PLAIN.
  6. 6FRONTISPIECE.
  7. 7RADIOLARIA.
  8. 8PLATE I.—Page 400.
  9. 9PROTOPHYTA. THALLOPHYTES.
  10. 10PLATE II.—Page 412.
  11. 11PROTOPHYTA. ALGÆ.
  12. 12PLATE III.—Page 479.
  13. 13PROTOZOA.
  14. 14PLATE IV.—Page 514.
  15. 15METAZOA. BRYOZOA.
  16. 16PLATE V.—Page 556.
  17. 17MOLLUSCA.
  18. 18PLATE VI.—Page 582.

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