The microscope made easy. or, I. The nature, uses, and magnifying powers of the best kinds of microscopes described, calculated, and explained: ... II. An account of what surprizing discoveries have been already made by the microscope: ... And also a great variety of new experiments and observations, ... By Henry Baker.
Henry Baker (1698 - 1774)
Category
Books
Date
1744
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Springhill, County Londonderry
NT 3216845
Summary
Bibliographic description
The third edition: with an additional plate of the solar microscope, and some farther accounts of the Polype.. [2], xvi, 22, [23-98], [4], 99-311, [13]p. plates. table. 8vo. Provenance: Eighteenth-century inscription in title page: "Geo Conyngham" [i.e.George Butle Conyngham (d. 1765) or George Lenox-Conyngham (1752-1816)]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; spine with five raised bands, gilt lettered title label "Baker's Microsco".
Makers and roles
Henry Baker (1698 - 1774)