Identifier: encbritannica11macf (find matches)
Title: Encyclopædia britannica : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature : constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises or systems ..
Year: 1797 (1790s)
Authors: MacFarquhar, Colin, ca. 1745-1793 Gleig, George, 1753-1840
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Edinburgh : Printed for A. Bell and C. MacFarquhar
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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at marked ^oo^ are parallellines forming nine divifions, each divifion the looothof an inch ; the middle divifion is again divided into5, making divifions to the 5000th of an inch. Thatmarked io,oco is divided in the fame manner, withthe middle divifion divided into 10, making thelOjOOGth of an inch. Example : The glafs micrometer without any mark is alfo di-vided, the outfide lines into icoth, the next intoloocth, and the infide lines into the 4000th of aninch : thefe are again croffed with an equal number of lines in the fame manner, making fquares of thelocth, loccth, and 400c th of an inch, thus demonftra-ting each others fize. The middle fquare of the ioo> thof an inch (fee fig. i6.) is divided into fixteen fquares; now (e) It will be necelTary, for great accuracy, as well as for comparative obfervations, that the two-feet rule(hould always be placed at a certain diftance from the eye; eight inches would, in general, be a proper dif-tance. MIC R O SCOPE fS^UX. ,_^ Plate CCXCVU
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