Optical essays ...
By: by B. Martin.
Publisher: Printed for, and sold by the author ...
Published: 1762
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 50
Subjects: Microscopes -- Early works to 1800.; Microscopy -- Early works to 1800.
Notes: The date of this work can be no earlier than 1762, as the 6th ed. of Martin's Philosophical grammar which was published in that year is included in the advertisement.
Signatures: [A]² B-H⁴.
Advertisements on p. [1]-5 at end.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) Containing, I. A practical description of the several sorts of single, solar, and compound microscopes; with their apparatus, and the latest improvements; title: II. The nature of vision in insects demonstrated by microscopic observations; title: III. A catalogue of all the principal microscopic objects; title: IV. The use of the reflecting telescope as an universal perspective for viewing every sort of object in the greatest perfection; title: V. The manner of computing the magnifying power in single and double microscopes; title: VI. A new method of applying a micrometer to take the dimensions of small objects; title: VII. An illustration of the whole in a great variety of figures on a large copper-plate.