The Microscope - Its Design, Construction and Applications

By Frederick Solomon Spiers

Book Overview

As the result of some suggestions I made several months ago to the Council of the Faraday Society, it was arranged to hold this present Symposium on " The Microscope and its Applications." The Royal Microscopical Society (Mr. J. W. Barnard, President); the Optical Society (Professor F. J. Cheshire, President); and the Photomicrographic Society (Mr. F. Martin Duncan, President) all most cordially approved and agreed to co-operate with us. In view of the fact that the objects of the Faraday Society, as set forth in its Constitution, are not only to promote the study of Electrochemistry, Electrometallurgy, Physical Chemistry and Kindred Subjects, but also Metallography this Symposium is specially appropriate. It is only, or at any rate chiefly, the last named Branch of Research Metallography my own remarks are meant to cover, that is, I do not pretend in this Address to deal with the Work of the Microscope as employed by the Geologist, the Zoologist, the Biologist, and other Branches. During the preparation of this Address I found the interesting frontispiece of the Book by George Adams, "ESSAYS ON THE MICROSCOPE." This was published July 1st, 1787, and contains a Practical Description of the Most Improved Microscopes, revised by Frederick Kanmacher, F.L.S., 1798. I thought this illustration particularly appropriate to form the frontispiece to this present Address of mine. ' The quaint wording at the foot of the Engraving well describes the object of our present Symposium.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1406737429
• ISBN13: 9781406737424
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Loman Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"