Identifier: microscopeitsrev1856carp (find matches)
Title: The microscope and its revelations
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Microscopy Microscopes Microscopy
Publisher: London : John Churchill
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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ESAL illCROSCOPE. 93 generally be the horizontal, with its axis directed at rightangles to the flat side of the Aquarium.—^It is obvious that thevery same instrument, turned from the horizontal into thevei-tical position, by attaching the clamp (as in Fig. 24) to theedge of a wooden strutt risuig vertically from a horizontalslab, instead of to the edge of a horizontal table, becomesextremely well suited for examining objects which are incourse of dissection in a trough too large to be convenientlytransferred to the stage of the microscope, for looking-overminute shells spread-out on a sheet of paper, and for otherpurposes for which a special form of dissecting-microscopehas been devised by Messrs. Powell andLealand.—But again,by turning up the i. shaped support constructed for the last-named pui-pose, so that it shall rest (as it were) on two legs likethe Greek X, and then clamping the stem that carries the bodyto its highest edge, the instrument acquii-es a position very Fig. 25.
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Waringtons Universal Microscope, arranged for ordinary use. 94 CONSTRUCTION OF THE MICROSCOPE. suitable for ordinary microscope-work; and nothing is wantedto adapt it to tliis, save tlie addition of a stage and a mirror,each of which may be so constructed as to fit into a brasssocket let into the wooden support, thus completing theMicroscope in the form represented in Fig. 25.—This is notthe last of the adaptations of which the instrument iscapable; for the wooden support remaiiiuig at the sameinclination, the body may be brought to the perpendicular, byshifting its stem in the clamp and by altering its angle at the Fig

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