A Description of the Most Valuable Kinds of Microscopes Now in Use : Viz. the Pocket Microscope, Together with the New Invention for Fixing It on a Pedestal, and Giving Light to Objects by a Speculum

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T224708 The drop-head title of p. [3] of the first section is 'The description of a pocket microscope, ..', and the final unnumbered leaf of the same section is 'The description of a new invention, to fix the pocket microscope, ..'; the second contains 'A description of the solar, or camera obscura microscope, ..', signed and dated at end: John Cuff. Fleet-street, Feb. 17th, 1743; the third 'The description of a microscope for opake objects; ..'; the fourth 'The description of a new-constructed double microscope: ..', signed on p. 4: John Cuff. Fleet-street, Sept. 20th, 1744; all these four sections have separate pagination and register (the third without register), with drop-head titles for the last three; the final section, with separate titlepage and pagination, is 'The description of a double and single microscope. .. London: printed by R. Pardon', 1758. London : printed for John Cuff, [1758?]. 8,[2];6;4;12;8p.,plates ; 8