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The microscope made easy, or, I. The nature, uses, and magnifying powers of the best kinds of micros...

The microscope made easy, or, I. The nature, uses, and magnifying powers of the best kinds of micros...

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The microscope made easy, or, I. The nature, uses, and magnifying powers of the best kinds of microscopes described, calculated, and explained : for the instruction of such, particularly, as desire to search into the wonders of the minute creation, tho' they are not acquainted with optics, together with full directions how to prepare, apply, examine, and preserve all sorts of objects, and proper cautions to be observed in viewing them, II. An account of what surprizing discoveries have been already made by the microscope, with useful reflections on them, and also a great variety of new experiments and observations, pointing out many uncommon subjects for the examination of the curious / by Henry Baker, fellow of the Royal Society, and member of the Society of Antiquaries, in London ; illustrated with copper plates.

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The microscope made easy, or, I. The nature, uses, and magnifying powers of the best kinds of microscopes described, calculated, and explained : for the instruction of such, particularly, as desire to search into the wonders of the minute creation, tho' they are not acquainted with optics, together with full directions how to prepare, apply, examine, and preserve all sorts of objects, and proper cautions to be observed in viewing them, II. An account of what surprizing discoveries have been already made by the microscope, with useful reflections on them, and also a great variety of new experiments and observations, pointing out many uncommon subjects for the examination of the curious / by Henry Baker, fellow of the Royal Society, and member of the Society of Antiquaries, in London ; illustrated with copper plates.

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London : Printed for R. Dodsley, MDCCXLII [1742]

Record Identifier

74VKVELvZpEb

MMS ID

991024131351802626

Language

English

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1 online resource (xvi, 311 pages, 13 unnumbered pages, xiv leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations.

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Publisher

London : Printed for R. Dodsley, MDCCXLII [1742]

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

MDCCXLII [1742]

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The microscope made easy, or, I. The nature, uses, and magnifying powers of the best kinds of microscopes described, calculated, and explained : for the instruction of such, particularly, as desire to search into the wonders of the minute creation, tho' they are not acquainted with optics, together with full directions how to prepare, apply, examin...

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Nature, uses, and magnifying powers of the best kinds of microscopes described, calculated, and explained

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Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925, Part II

Cf. Biblioteca Britannica, by Robert Watt, v. 1, 64q for 3d ed., 1743.

Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.

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74VKVELvZpEb

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991024131351802626