Identifier: naturalist21832brow (find matches)
Title: The Naturalist
Year: 1830 (1830s)
Authors: Browne, D. J. (Daniel Jay), b. 1804
Subjects: Natural history Science
Publisher: (Boston, Mass. : Pierce and Parker, and Carter and Hendee)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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THE NATURALIST. JULY, 1832. THE MICROSCOPE NO. I. The microscope, derived from the Greek mikros^ small, andskopeo, to see, is an instrument for viewing minute objects; and itapparently magnifies objects, because they enable us to see themnearer than with the naked eye, without affecting the distinctnessof vision. By making a pinhole tlirough a piece of paper, thenbringing the eye close to the hole, and the paper within two orthree inches of any small object, the object will apparently bemuch magnified, though without the paper, it would at that dis-tance have been imperceptible. There are thi-ee kinds of microscopes; the single, the com-pound, and the solar. Single microscopes, of the greatest power, are very small glo-bules, of glass, which are made by melting the ends of fine threadsof glass in the flame of a candle; or by taking a little fine powder-ed glass on the point of a very small needle, and melting it into aglobule. With such microscopes as these, Leuwenhoek madeall his won

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