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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 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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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.
Cuff, John, approximately 1708-1772.Date: [1758?]- Books
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Directions how to use the double reflecting microscope, with the new invention for viewing opake objects. Made by [blank]
Date: 1770?]- Books
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Description d'un microscope de poche, et de toutes les pieces qui en dépendent. Le tout fait par Jean Cuff, Demeurant a l'enseigne du Microscope de Reflection, tout vis a vis Serjeant's-Inn Gate, dans Fleet-Street, à Londres.
Cuff, John, approximately 1708-1772.Date: 1743]- 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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A description of the solar, or, camera obscura microscope, 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Lectures and collections / made by Robert Hooke.
Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703Date: 1678- Books
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The description of the double reflecting microscope; as made and sold by Charles Lincoln, at Sir Isaac Newton's Head, No.62, Leadenhall-Street.
Lincoln, Charles.Date: 1750?]- Books
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The description of a pocket microscope, with the apparatus there unt[o] belonging. As made by John Cuff ... in Fleet-Street, London.
Cuff, John, approximately 1708-1772.Date: 1743]- 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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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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The method of using the catoptric microscope and telescope. Made and sold only by Joseph Jackson, mathematical instrument-maker, in Angel-Court in the Strand, London.
Jackson, Joseph, active 1736.Date: 1736]- 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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Employment for the microscope. In two parts. I. An examination of salts and saline substances, their amazing configurations and crystals, as formed under the eye of the observer: with plain directions how to prepare such substances, and preserve them in constant readiness for inspection; whereby the curious may always be furnished with numberless objects higherto little known. Also occasional considerations on gems, poisons, the vegetation of metals, the resusciation of plants, the formation of amber, corals, and many other subjects. II. An account of various animalcules never before described, and of many other microscopical discoveries: with observations and remarks. Likewise a description of the microscope used in these experiments, and of a new micrometer serving to shew the size of magnified objects. Together with instructions for printing off any medal or coin. Illustrated with seventeen copper plates. By Henry Baker, fellow of the Royal Society, and member of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Baker, Henry, 1698-1774.Date: 1764- 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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The description of a pocket microscope, with the apparatus thereto belonging: adapted for viewing both opake and transparent objects. ... As greatly improved and made by James Mann and James Ayscough, ... London.
Mann, James (Optician)Date: 1750?]