TY - GEN AU - Martin, Benjamin, CY - London : DA - [1774?] ID - 667881 KW - Iceland spar KW - Telescopes LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://find.gale.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=1378400200&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=usi N1 - The second section, with separate titlepage, pagination and register, is 'Essay II. on the nature and wonderful properties of island crystal. ...', with same imprint. N1 - Both essays could be had separately, the first essay without titlepage. N1 - Date of publication based on date of advertisement at the end: Just published, The description and use of an opake solare microscope. ... London: printed for the author, No. 171, in Fleet-Street, 1774. N1 - Price on title page: Price 1s. 6d. N1 - Reproduction of original from Library of Congress. PB - Printed for, and sold by the author, at No. 171, in Fleet-Street, PP - London : PY - [1774?] T1 - Two essays on the nature and wonderful properties of Island Crystal.Essay I. Containing, all that has been hitherto delivered in regard to its form, dimensions, and double refraction of light; with the addition of several new experiments with polished parallelopipeds and prisms made of this substance, which discover a various, multiple, and colorific refraction; and exhibit a variety of images of one and the same object. To which is subjoined, a computation of the magnifying power of reflecting telescopes; and a table thereof, from 6 inches to 12 feet in length. The whole illustrated with copper plate figures. By Benjamin Martin. TI - Two essays on the nature and wonderful properties of Island Crystal.Essay I. Containing, all that has been hitherto delivered in regard to its form, dimensions, and double refraction of light; with the addition of several new experiments with polished parallelopipeds and prisms made of this substance, which discover a various, multiple, and colorific refraction; and exhibit a variety of images of one and the same object. To which is subjoined, a computation of the magnifying power of reflecting telescopes; and a table thereof, from 6 inches to 12 feet in length. The whole illustrated with copper plate figures. By Benjamin Martin. UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://find.gale.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=1378400200&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=usi ER -