Record

RefNoCLP/2/15/1
LevelItem
TitleManuscript, on making a microscope with a globule of water by [Matthias Gray]
Date[1696]
DescriptionPaper regarding a method for making a microscope using a globule of water, so that any living beings or substances within the globule can be seen 'magnified as the best microscopes'.

Subject: Optics

Stephen Gray's design of such a microscope was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 19, no. 221 (1696).

Communicated by Stephen Gray. Read to the Royal Society on 29 January 1696.
Extent5p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1695.0040
JBO/9/211
RelatedRecordCLP/2/15
CLP/2/15/2
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CodePersonNameDates
NA7365Gray; Stephen (? 1666 - 1736)? 1666 - 1736
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