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Maker

Henry; Lord Brougham

Subjects

microscopes (simple microscope; compound microscope; oxy-hydrogen microscope; solar microscope)

Title

The Circle of the Sciences with an Introductory Discourse of the Objects, Pleasures and Advantages of Science. Vol I: Experimental, Chemical, Mathematical and Mechanical Philosophy. Microscopes.

Description

Educational/ general interest information about microscopes, part of a larger encyclopaedic work on science.
Description of the general principles of microscopes (with inset printed illustrations): discussion of the simple microscope, compound microscope, oxy-hydrogen microscope, solar microscope, objects for the microscope.

full-page illustrations: (following p. 66): engraving of compound microscope, ray diagram of solar microscope, diagram of cause of the rainbow, diagram of Gregorian telescope; full-page portrai
portrait of Henry Lord Brougham.

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Pages

12

Address

The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, 26 Paternoster Row, London; and 199 Broadway, New York

Other Makers

Edited by James Wylde

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Contents List

Hardback

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Index

Illustrations

Yes

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