Micrographia illustrata : or the microscope explained, in several new inventions, Particularly of a New Variable Microscope for Examining all Sorts of Minute Objects; and also of a New Camera Obscura Microscope, Designed for Drawing all Minute Objects, either by the Light of the Sun, or by a Lamp in Winter Evenings, to great Perfection; with A Description of all the other Microscopes now in Use. Likewise a natural history of Aerial, Terrestrial, and Aquatic Animals, &c. Considered as Microscopic Objects. By George Adams, Mathematical Instrument-Maker to His Majesty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, George, 1709-1772.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history.

Microscopes--Early works to 1800.

Microscopes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([16],lix,[1],325,[1],14p.,plates, )

Edition:

The fourth edition. Illustrated with seventy-two copper plates, ..

Other Title:

Micrographia illustrata

Place of Publication:

London : printed for the author, and sold by him at No. 60, in Fleet-Street, and by all booksellers in town and country, M.DCC.LXXI. [1771]

Notes:

With a half-title.

Includes 'A catalogue of mathematical, philosophical, and optical instruments' with separate pagination but continuous register.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T53472.

OCLC:

642625233