Micrographia illustrata, or, The knowledge of the microscope explain'd : together with an account of a new invented universal, single or double microscope either of which is capable of being applied to an improv'd solar apparatus : this treatise contains a description of the nature, uses and magnifying powers of microscopes in general together with full directions how to prepare, apply and examine as well as preserve all sorts of minute objects ... : the whole being as it were a natural history of a multitude of aerial, terrestrial and aquatick animals, seeds, plants & c. : to which is added a translation of mr. Joblott's Observations of the animalcula that are found in many different sorts of infusions, and a very particular account of that surprising phaenomenon The fresh water polype translated from the French treatise of mr. Trembley : this work ... is illustrated with 65 copper-plates curiously engrav'd which contain above 560 pictures of microscopic objects / by George Adams .
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