RefNo | CLP/2/36/1 |
Level | Item |
Title | Manuscript, 'A catoptric microscope' by Robt [Robert] Barker |
Date | [1735] |
Description | Barker writes of problems with conventional microscopes, including shading caused by the microscope, the difficulty of viewing small parts of large objects (i.e. during vivisection), and the short focus of dioptric microscopes. Barker proposes a new microscope based on the Newtonian telecope.
Subject: Optics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A catoptric microscope'.
Read to the Royal Society on 8 January 1735. |
Extent | 4p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1735.0052 Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 39, no 442, p 259 (1735) |
RelatedRecord | RBO/19/39 |
CLP/2/36 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA572 | Barker; Robert (- 1745) | - 1745 |