@article{578365,
      recid = {578365},
      author = {Adams, George,},
      title = {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: Also an Account of The principal  Microscopical Discoveries, that have hitherto been  mentioned by the most celebrated Authors, together with a  great Variety of new Experiments and Observations. 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 on the Animalcula, that are found in  many different Sorts of Infusions; A very particular  Account of that surprising Phaenomenon, The Fresh Water  Polype, translated from the French Treatise of Mr.  Trembley. This Work is compiled for the Assistance of  those, who are desirous of surveying the extensive Beauties  of the minute Creation, And is illustrated with 65  Copper-Plates, curiously engrav'd, which contain above 560  Pictures of Microscopic Objects. By George Adams,  Mathematical, Philosophical, and Optical Instrument-Maker,  at Tycho Brahe's Head, in Fleet-Street. [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {printed for, and sold by the author,},
      address = {London :},
      pages = {16;263,[1]p.,plates ;},
      year = {1746},
      note = {Vertical chain lines.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/578365},
}