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Hubble's legacy : reflections by those who dreamed it, built it, and observed the universe with it / edited by Roger D. Launius and David H. DeVorkin.
Date: 2014- Books
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John Cuff, spectacle and microscope maker, at the sign of The reflecting microscope and spectacles, opposite Serjeant's-Inn. Fleet-Street, London, makes and sells, wholesale and retale, all manner of curious optical instruments, ...
Cuff, John, approximately 1708-1772.Date: 1744?]- Books
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John Cuff, optician, spectacle, and microscope maker, at the sign of The reflecting microscope and spectacles, against Serjeant's-Inn Gate in Fleet-street, makes and sells all sorts of the most curious optical instruments, ...
Cuff, John, approximately 1708-1772.Date: 1745?]- Books
The mirror of the self : sexuality, self-knowledge, and the gaze in the early Roman Empire / Shadi Bartsch.
Bartsch, Shadi, 1966-Date: 2006- Books
The microscope and the eye : a history of reflections, 1740-1870 / Jutta Schickore.
Schickore, Jutta.Date: 2007- Books
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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.
Baker, Henry, 1698-1774.Date: M.DCC.XLII. [1742]- Books
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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.
Baker, Henry, 1698-1774.Date: 1743- Books
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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 surprising 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.
Baker, Henry, 1698-1774.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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Optical essays, containing, I. A practical description of the several sorts of ... microscopes ... II. The nature of vision in insects ... III. A catalogue of ... microscopic objects. IV. The use of the reflecting telescope ... V. The manner of computing the magnifying power in ... microscopes. VI. A new method of applying a micrometer, etc / By B. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [not before 1762]- Books
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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 Social of Antiquaries, in London. Illustrated with copper plates. The fourth edition: with an additional plate of the solar microscope, an some farther accouns of the polype.
Baker, Henry, 1698-1774.Date: 1754- Books
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Optical essays, Containing, I. A practical description of the several sorts of single, solar, and compound microscops; with their apparatus, and latest improvments. II. The nature of vision in insects demonstrated by microscopic observations. III. A catalogue of all principal microscopic objects. IV. The use of the reflecting telescope as an universal perspective for viewing every sort of object in the greatest perfection. V. The manner of computing the magnifying power in single and double microscopes. VI. A new method of applying a micrometer to take the dimension: of small objects. VII. An illustration of the whole in a great variety of figures on a large copper-plate. By B. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1761?]- Books
When glass matters : studies in the history of science and art from Graeco-Roman antiquity to early modern era / edited by Marco Beretta.
Date: 2004- Books
The Newton papers : the strange and true odyssey of Isaac Newton's manuscripts / Sarah Dry.
Dry, Sarah, 1974-Date: 2014