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The microscope and its revelations (1891)

Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885, Dallinger, W. H. (William Henry), 1842-1909 · Philadelphia, Blakiston · leaf 166

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s, ofLondon, in 1746 and 1771, which have many points of Interest, butscarcely contribute enough of distinctive improvement to the modernforms of the microscope to detain us long. That designed in 1771 isfigured in the Adams Micrographia [llustrata, and is reproducedm fig. 107. , In this instrument… … Fig. 107 142 THE HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF THE MICROSCOPE improvements on all previous constructions. He applied two eye-glasses at A, a third near B, and a fourth in the conical parr betweenB and C by which he increased 1 the field of view and of light ;draw-tubes were at A and B, by which these…

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