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ESSAYS
ON THE
MICROSCOPE.
T.S. Duché pinxit
Truth discovering to Time, Science
instructing her Children in the Improvements on the Microscope.
London, Published July 1.st 1787, byGeo.e Adams, N.o 60 Fleet Street.
ESSAYS
ON THE
MICROSCOPE;
CONTAINING
A PRACTICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE MOST IMPROVED
MICROSCOPES;
A GENERAL HISTORY OF INSECTS,
THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS, PECULIAR HABITS, AND ŒCONOMY:
AN ACCOUNT OF THE VARIOUS SPECIES, AND SINGULAR PROPERTIES, OF THE HYDRÆ
AND VORTICELLÆ: A DESCRIPTION OF THREE HUNDRED
AND EIGHTY-THREE ANIMALCULA:
WITH
A CONCISE CATALOGUE OF INTERESTING OBJECTS: A VIEW OF THE ORGANIZATION
OF TIMBER, AND THE CONFIGURATION OF SALTS, WHEN
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE.
ILLUSTRATED WITH THIRTY-TWO FOLIO PLATES
BY THE LATE
GEORGE ADAMS,
MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENT MAKER TO HIS MAJESTY, &c.
THE SECOND EDITION,
WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS, BY
FREDERICK KANMACHER, F. L. S.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY DILLON AND KEATING,
FOR THE EDITOR; AND FOR W. AND S. JONES, HOLBORN.
MDCCXCVIII.
PRICE 1l. 8s. IN BOARDS.
[v]
TO
THE KING.
SIR,
Every work that tends to enlarge theboundaries of science has a peculiar claimto the protection of Kings. He that diffusesscience, civilizes man, opens the inletsto his happiness, and co-operates with theFountain and Source of all knowledge. By[vi]science truth is advanced; and of ...