The Great Age Of The Microscope
£40.00
Publisher
Adam Hilger.
Place
Bristol and New York
Date
1989
Synopsis
The collection of the royal microscopical society through 150 years. [by] gerard l'e turner.
Item Description
4to. 10 x 7.75 inches. vix + [i] + 379 pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. As new condition. Illustrated by 600 black and white photographs, including frontispiece and facsimiles. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. Following a few short introductory chapters, this is principally a Catalogue of the Society's collections with 453 entries describing and illustrating a wide range of microscopes and associated equipment and other artefacts. The Microscopical Society of London was founded in 1839 and received its Royal Charter in 1866, the second half of the century being the great era of microscope manufacture and of learned interest in microscopy. By Gerard L'Estrange Turner (1926-2012,historian of science. He was Professor of the History of Scientific Instruments at Imperial College, London and Past President of the Royal Microscopical Society and its Honorary Archivist.
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