1932 The History of the Microscope: Compiled from Original Instruments and Documents, up to the Introduction of the Achromatic Microscope

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First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce, With Dustwrapper

First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original glassine wrapper. Illustrated with one hundred and sixty-four images. A detailed history, compiled from original instruments and documents, of the microscope, offering detailed insight into the development of this important laboratory instrument. With chapters on the history of magnifiers, the invention of the microscope, early compound microscopes, improvements, reflections, and more. Includes references to important figures in this process from Robert Hooke to Benjamin Martins and George Adams. Written by Reginald S. Clay and Thomas H. Court, British scientific historians best known for this work and fellows of the Royal Microscopical Society.