Employment for the microscope
Subtitle: 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 hitherto little known, also occasional considerations on gems, poisons, the vegetation of metals, the resuscitation 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: by Henry Baker, fellow of the Royal Society, and member of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Edition: The second edition.
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II
Publisher: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley
Published: 1764
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
Subjects: Microscopy; Early works to 1800; Microscopes; Micrometers (Instruments)
Notes: Plates numbered I-XV, XVII; frontispiece is unnumbered, as instructed in "To the bookbinder," p. [10] at end.

Includes index.

Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.

Includes bibliographical references.