Microscopes

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N Terry F on Wed 25 Jul 2007, 10:44pm

Robert Hooke’s Compound Microscope
http://www.arsmachina.com/hooke.htm
N bitter o salt on Tue 14 Aug 2007, 09:52pm

Micrographia
Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses

with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon

Author: Robert Hooke

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15491/15491-h

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15491/15491-h/images/scheme-31.png

microscope and light enhanser.
xref: scotoscope: http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/7790.php
N Michael Robinson on Wed 15 Aug 2007, 03:49am

Reproductions and descriptions of Dutch, Italian and British early microscopes:-

http://www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/museum/museum1500-1600.html
N Michael Robinson on Wed 15 Aug 2007, 04:31am

Introduction to Research with Early Microscopes

Includes much on Leeuwenhoek and his early specimens rediscovered in the Archives of the Royal Society:-
http://www.sciences.demon.co.uk/whistmic.htm