Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15219

    Part of microscope

    Date
    1696
    Creator
    Stephen Gray (1666 - 1736, British) , Astronomer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p2a
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 77mm
    width (page): 32mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Part of a microscope using a water drop, as designed by Stephen Gray. Printed as figure 7 in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 19, no. 221 (1696).
    Transcription
    Figure VII
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Object history
    Figs 7-8: design of microscope, in Stephen Gray, ‘Several microscopical observations and experiments’, Phil. Trans., vol. 19, no. 221 (June, July and August 1696), pp. 280-87.
    Related fellows
    Stephen Gray (1666 - 1736, British) , Astronomer
    Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
    Associated place
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