George Adams, instrument maker to George III, wrote this guide for the gentleman microscopist. It opens with the history and optics of the microscope and a description of the best instruments and how to use them, then surveys insects, their transformations and habits, the hydra and vorticella, three hundred and eighty-three kinds of animalcules, and a catalogue of objects worth viewing.
A fascinating glimpse of Georgian science for collectors of microscopes and historians of biology. Download the free EPUB.