Microscopic objects, animal, vegetable and mineral; with instructions for preparing and viewing them

Andrew Pritchard

Description

/^^^^'^^^'^^^^.«^t^^ y^tf OBJECTS,MIGROSCOPIC ANIMAL, VEGETABLE AND MINERAL: THEM.INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARING AND VIEWING LONDON: WHITTAKER MAMA LANE.AND CO., AVE 1847. J. DARKIN, PRINTER, CLOUDESLEY-STREET, ISLINGTON.2, CONTENTS. magnified an originalFrontispiece—Aquatic Larva, (from unpublished Drawing). PAGE Preface iii. -Catalogue of Microscopic Objects 1 Chapter I.—Notes on Recent Improvements in Microscopes 19 II.—General Observations on the Catalogue of Mi- croscopic Objects 27 Chapter III.-=-Test Objects 99 IV.—Animals and Plants in which the Circulation has been observed under the Microscope 122 Chapter V—Vie^^ong Microscopic Objects by Polarized Light 127 VI.—Preparing Objects for the Microscope 131 142Chapter VII—Mounting Microscopic Objects 153CHapter VIII.—Microscopical Fragments 173Chapter IX.—Achromatic Microscopes The Megaloscope new Optical Instrument) . 187X— fa "" or: 39 PREFACE. This little work is intended assistant to the tyro inas an most, in theMicroscopy—a sort of A B C, or Hornbook—at **light of a Primer containing Words of one and two Syllables." for rudimentaryNot that the author assents to the notion that works excellence is not required. On the contrary, he believes that elementary instruction, even ato be really efficient, requires greater amount of knowledge of and penetration into the human mind, than is required for the composition of books intended for ofreaders higher attainments.

Sujets

• Microscope
• Microscopy

Informations

• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 6
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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