Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885, Dallinger, W. H. (William Henry), 1842-1909 · Philadelphia, Blakiston · leaf 146
us, and ultimately to the combination of lenses intoa compound form, would be—in such an age as that in which theinvention of spectacles arose—only a matter of time. But it isalmost impossible to fix the exact date of the production of the firstmicroscope, as distinguished from a mere magnifying… … Fig. 90—An Assyrian lens (?). 122 THE HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF THE MICROSCOPE .spectacle makers, of Middleburg, Holland, were the inventors. Butit would appear that the earliest microscope was constructed forobserving objects by reflected light only. At the Loan Collection of Scientilie Instruments…
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