42 results filtered with: Microscopes - Early works to 1800
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Microscopium pantometricum; or, A New Construction of a Micrometer, adapted to the compound and solar Microscope: shewing by inspection, I. The Magnifying Power of the Object Lenses, and of the Eye-Glasses. II. The Extent of the Field of View. III. The Dimensions of the Real and Apparent Magnitude of small Objects. To which is added, The Description of an Universal Perspective, with a Scale of all its Magnifying Powers. The Whole illustrated by Two Copper Plates. By B. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1780?]- Books
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Lectures and collections / made by Robert Hooke.
Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703Date: 1678- 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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Jean Cuff, opticien, faiseur de lunettes & de microscopes; à l'enseigne du microscope ... dans la rue de Fleet-street. Fait & vend toutes sortes d'instruments les plus curieux en optique; ...
Cuff, John, approximately 1708-1772.Date: 1744?]- Books
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The description and use of a proportional camera obscura, with a solar microscope adapted thereto. Invented and sold by B. Martin in Fleet-Street.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: 1770?]- Books
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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- Books
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Experimental philosophy, in three books : containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical : with some deductions, and probable hypotheses, raised from them, in avouchment and illustration of the now famous atomical hypothesis / by Henry Power.
Power, Henry, 1623-1668Date: 1664- Books
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A proposal to the curious, for publishing a general, reflecting, portable microscope.
Lindsay, George.Date: 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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Description du microscope de poche; fait et se vend par Pierre Dollond, opticien de sa majesté, et de son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le Duc d'York, demeurant dans Le Strand, à Londres.
Dollond, Peter, 1730-1820.Date: ca. 1790-1800?]- Books
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An essay on the genuine construction of a standard microscope and telescope: With the application of a prismatic or catadioptric eye-piece to refracting and reflecting telescopes, by which their lengths are much contracted, their fields of view encreased, and their uses greatly facilitated; particularly in the reflector of Cassegrain's form for celestial observations. By B. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The description of a microscope for opake objects; As Made and Sold by John Cuff, At the Sign of the Reflecting Microscope directly against Serjeant's-Inn Gate, in Fleet-Street, London.
Cuff, John, approximately 1708-1772.Date: 1744?]- 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
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Micrographia: or Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses· : With observations and inquiries thereupon. By R. Hooke, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703Date: MDCLXVII. [1667]- Books
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The description and manner of using Mr. Wilson's sett of pocket-microscopes, Lately Publish'd in the Philosophical Transactions, No 281, And mention'd in No 284, 285, &c. Which Microscopes are with Great Ease apply'd in viewing Opake, Transparent and Liquid Objects: As the Farina of the Flowers of Plants, &c. The Circulation of the Blood in divers living Creatures, &c. The Animalcula in Semine, &c.
Wilson, James, 1665-1730.Date: Printed in the Year, MDCCVI. [1706]- Books
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Description and use of the compound microscope, as made and sold by William Fraser, No.3, New Bond-Street, London.
Fraser, William, approximately 1720-1815.Date: 1770?]- Books
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Micrographia illustrata, or, the knowledge of the microscope explain'd: together with an account of a new invented universal, single or double, microscope, either of which is capable of being applied to an improv'd solar apparatus. This Treatise contains a Description of the Nature, Uses, and Magnifying Powers of Microscopes in general; together with full Directions how to prepare, apply, and examine, as well as preserve, all Sorts of minute Objects: Also an Account of The principal Microscopical Discoveries, that have hitherto been mentioned by the most celebrated Authors, together with a great Variety of new Experiments and Observations. The Whole being, as it were, A Natural History of a Multitude of Aerial, Terrestrial, and Aquatick Animals, Seeds, Plants, &c. To which is added A Translation of Mr. Joblott's Observations on the Animalcula, that are found in many different Sorts of Infusions; A very particular Account of that surprising Phaenomenon, The Fresh Water Polype, translated from the French Treatise of Mr. Trembley. This Work is compiled for the Assistance of those, who are desirous of surveying the extensive Beauties of the minute Creation, And is illustrated with 65 Copper-Plates, curiously engrav'd, which contain above 560 Pictures of Microscopic Objects. By George Adams, Mathematical, Philosophical, and Optical Instrument-Maker, at Tycho Brahe's Head, in Fleet-Street.
Adams, George, 1709-1772.Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]- Books
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The description of a double and single microscope. Very convenient to observe all sorts of objects.
Cuff, John, approximately 1708-1772.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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Micrographia illustrata, or, the knowledge of the microscope explain'd: together with an account of a new invented universal, Single or Double, microscope, Either of which is capable of being applied to an Improv'd Solar Apparatus. This Treatise contains a Description of the Nature, Uses, and Magnifying Powers of Microscopes in general; together with full Directions how to prepare, apply, and examine, as well as preserve, all Sorts of minute Objects: Also an Account of The principal Microscopical Discoveries, that have hitherto been mentioned by the most celebrated Authors, together with a great Variety of new Experiments and Observations. The Whole being, as it were, A Natural History of a Multitude of Aerial, Terrestrial, and Aquatick Animals, Seeds, Plants, &c. To which is added, A Translation of Mr. Joelott's Observations on the Animalcula, that are found in many different Sorts of Infusions; and A very particular Account of that surprising Phaenomenon, The Fresh Water Polype, translated from the French Treatise of Mr. Trembley. This Work is compiled for the Assistance of those, who are desirous of surveying the extensive Beauties of the minute Creation; And is illustrated with 65 copper-plates, curiously engrav'd, which contain above 560 Pictures of Microscopic Objects. By George Adams, Mathematical, Philosophical, and Optical Instrument-Maker, at Tycho Brabe's Head, in Fleet-Street.
Adams, George, 1709-1772.Date: 1747- Books
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Of microscopes, and the discoveries made thereby. Illustrated with many copper-plates. By Henry Baker, ... In two volumes. ...
Baker, Henry, 1698-1774.Date: 1785- Books
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Micrographia, or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses : with observations and inquiries thereupon / by R. Hooke.
Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703Date: 1665- Books
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The description and use of an opake solar microscope. In which all opake bodies, whether of Animal, Vegetable, Fossil, or Marine Production, are shewn in the greatest perfection, in all their native Beauties, of Lights, Shades, Prominences, Cavities; and all Variety of different Hues, Tints, and Colours, heightened by Reflection of Solar Rays condensed upon them, to an amazing Degree: at the same time all transparent objects are also shewn in a new light, and in a manner peculiar to this instrument. Illustrated by a copper-plate section of the microscope in its full length. By B. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: 1774- Books
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Description d'un microscope double, d'une nouvelle construction: auquel on a ajouté plusieurs inventions très utiles; tel qu'on le trouve chez l'inventeur, Jean Cuff, ... ruë de Fleet-street, à Londres.
Cuff, John, approximately 1708-1772.Date: 1744]- Books
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Micrographia nova: or, a new treatise on the Microscope, and Microscopic objects. Containing I. The Description and Use of two different Reflecting Microscopes, of a new Form and Structure, and furnish'd with a Micrometer; viz. one design'd for the Pocket, the other mounted on a Ball and Socket, which renders it of Universal Use. II. A large and particular Account of all Kinds of Microscopic Objects, to be found in the Human Body, in Quadrupedes, in Fowls, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, &c. in Plants and Vegetables of every kind; in Earths, Minerals, and Fossil Substances; and various other Miscellaneous Subjects. With Directions how to procure and prepare them for Use; and divers occasional Remarks interspersed thro' the whole. To which is added, An Account of the Camera Obscura, and the Solar Microscope, or Method of Magnifying Objects in a Darken'd Chamber, In every Way by Reflection and Refraction. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]- Books
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The description and use of both the globes, the armillary sphere, and orrery, Exemplified In a large and select Variety of Problems in Astronomy, Geography, Dialling, Navigation, Spherical Trigonometry, Chronology, &c. Also A New Construction of each Globe, by an Apparatus exhibiting the Phaenomena of the Earth and Heavens exactly as they are, and adapting the same to every Age of the World. The whole embellished with five copper plates of the instruments, &c. By Benj. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1758]