Fontana, Francesco, 1580-1656. **E.229.16 Novae ccelestivm, terrestrivmq rervm observationes ... a Fran- cisco Fontana, specillis 4 se inventis et ad summam perfectionem perductis, editz. — Neapoli...apud Gaffarum. M.DC.XLVI. (6), 10, (4), 11- 151, (1) pp. Portrait. Plates. Engraved title-page. 21cm., in s. tre author ascribes to Porta the first use of lenses in pairs, and to him- self the invention of the telescope and the microscope, as well as the discovery of the “canals” on Mars.
This card was printed at the Boston a Public Library, June 12, 1924.
M8o28 — Microscope. — Telescope. — Astronomy. — Mars. The planet.