Microscope using a globule of water
Date
29 January 1696
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p7
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 303mm
width (page): 193mm
width (page): 193mm
Subject
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Description
Diagram explaining the optical principles of a microscope using a globule of water. Stephen Gray's design of such a microscope was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 19, no. 221 (1696).
Transcription
Proposition the first. At what Distance the lenses of a sphericule of water an object must be placed to be seen distinctly
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
29 January 1696, 'Mr [Matthias] Gray of Canterbury having communicated a paper of his brother [Stephen], containing a contrivance for making a microscope with a globule of water, whereby animals or any other substances if contained therein, might be seen magnified as the best microscopes, it was ordered that the experiment thereof be tried before the Society' (JBO/9/211).
Related fellows
Stephen Gray (1666 - 1736, British) , Astronomer
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