A description of the most valuable kinds of microscopes now in use : Viz. The pocket microscope, together with the new invention for fixing it on a pedestal, and giving light to objects by a speculum; the double reflection microscope; the microscope for viewing opake objects; and the solar, or camera obscura microscope. As they are made and sold by John Cuff, against Serjeant's-Inn Gate in Fleet-street. With a particular account of the use and application of the several parts of the apparatus belonging to each kind.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed for John Cuff, in Fleet-street,
[1758?]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | The drop-head title of pages [3] of the first section is 'The description of a pocket microscope, ..', and the final unnumbered leaf of the same section is 'The description of a new invention, to fix the pocket microscope, ..'; the second contains 'A description of the solar, or camera obscura microscope, ..', signed and dated at end: John Cuff. Fleet-street, Feb. 17th, 1743; the third 'The description of a microscope for opake objects; ..'; the fourth 'The description of a new-constructed double microscope: ..', signed on pages 4: John Cuff. Fleet-street, Sept. 20th, 1744; all these four sections have separate pagination and register (the third without register), with drop-head titles for the last three; the final section, with separate titlepage and pagination, is 'The description of a double and single microscope. .. London: printed by R. Pardon', 1758. Price in square brackets: (Price One Shilling.) Reproduction of original from British Library. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (8, 2 unnumbered pages, 64128 pages, plates) |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain -- England -- London. |