. The microscope and its revelations. at his microscopes were mechanicallyrough. ami that optically they consisted of simple bi-convex lenses,with worked . mounted lietweeii two plates of thin metalwith minute apertures through which the objects were directly his death Leeuwenhoek bequeathed a cabinet of twenty-six of hismicroscopes t ithe Royal Society ; unhappily, they have mysteriously disappeared. But Mr. Mavall was enabled to figure onelodged in the museum of theUtrecht University, which isgiven in figs. 99 and 100 infull size. The lens is seen inthe upper third of the p
. The microscope and its revelations. at his microscopes were mechanicallyrough. ami that optically they consisted of simple bi-convex lenses,with worked . mounted lietweeii two plates of thin metalwith minute apertures through which the objects were directly his death Leeuwenhoek bequeathed a cabinet of twenty-six of hismicroscopes t ithe Royal Society ; unhappily, they have mysteriously disappeared. But Mr. Mavall was enabled to figure onelodged in the museum of theUtrecht University, which isgiven in figs. 99 and 100 infull size. The lens is seen inthe upper third of the has a J-inch focus. Theobject is held in front of thelens, 011 the point of a shortrod, with screw arrange-ments for adjusting theobject under the lens. Many modifications ofthis and the preceding in-struments are found withsome early English no important construc-tive or optical modificationimmediately presents some ingenious arrange-ments are found in thesimple microscopes devisedby Musschenbroek in the.
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