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Watkins, Francis, 1723-1782

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    L'exercise du microscope, contenant un abregé de tout ce qui a été ecrit par les meilleurs autheurs touchant les objets les plus curieux: avec les precautions qu'on doit prendre pour faire les observations avec succes. Anquel est ajouté La description d'un microscope, qu'on peut appeller universel, d'autant qu'on y trouve les proprietez de toutes les differentes sortes quiayent encore parues. Construit sur un nouveau plan, par François Watkins.

    Watkins, Francis, 1723-1782. | Date: 1754
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    Francis Watkins, optician, at Charing Cross, London : makes spectacles of all sorts, ground in the correctest manner, and set in gold, silver and tortoiseshell ... money weights and scales finished with the greatest exactness = Francois Watkins, opticien, à Charing Cross, à Londres.

    Watkins, Francis, 1723-1782. | Date: [1777?]
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    A particular account of the electrical experiments hitherto made publick, with variety of new ones, and full instructions for performing them: to which is annex'd, the description of a compleat electrical machine, and its Apparatus, with the Way of using it. Illustrated with cuts. By Francis Watkins, Optician to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales.

    Watkins, Francis, 1723-1782. | Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]
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