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The Draper catalogue of stellar spectra photograhed with the 8-inch Bache telescope as a part of the Henry Draper memorialAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Introduction to optical mineralogy and petrography : the practical methods of identifying minerals in thin section with the microscope and the principles involved in the classification of rocksAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The microscope : its history, construction, and application, being a familiar introduction to the use of the instrument and the study of microscopical scienceAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Optic projection : principles, installation and use of the magic lantern, projection microscope, reflecting lantern, moving picture machine, fully illustrated with plates and with over 400 text-figuresAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Methods of using the microscope, camera-lucida and solar projector for purposes of examination and the production of illustrationsAuthor: Classic Public Domain
In starland with a three-inch telescope; a conveniently arranged guide for the use of the amateur astronomer, with forty diagrams of the constellations and eight of the moonAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Mosses with hand-lens and microscope; a non-technical hand-book of the more common mosses of the northeastern United StatesAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Refraction and how to refract : including sections on optics, retinoscopy, the fitting of spectacles and eye-glasses, etc.Author: Classic Public Domain
Optic projection : principles, installation and use of the magic lantern, projection microscope, reflecting lantern, moving picture machineAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Astronomy without a telescope; a guide to the constellations, and introduction to the study of the heavens with the unassisted sightAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The romance of the microscope, an interesting description of its uses in all branches of science, industry, agriculture, and in the detection of crime, with a short account of its origin, history & developmentAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The microscope: its history, construction, and application, being a familiar introduction to the use of the instrument and the study of microscopial scienceAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The microscope in botany. A guide for the microscopical investigation of vegatable substances. From the German of Dr. Julius Wilhelm BehrensAuthor: Classic Public Domain
A beginner's star-book; an easy guide to the stars and to the astronomical uses of the opera-glass, the field-glass and the telescopeAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The microscope, : its history, construction, and applications: being a familiar introduction to the use of the instrument, and the study of microsopical science,Author: Classic Public Domain
Micrographia illustrata: or, The microscope explained ... Likewise, a natural history of aerial, terrestrial, and aquatic animals, &c., considered as microscopic objectsAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Half-hours with the microscope; being a popular guide to the use of the microscope as a means of amusement and instructionAuthor: Classic Public Domain
On the construction of a silvered glass telescope, fifteen and a half inches in aperture, and its use in celestial photographyAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The microscopist : a compendium of microscopic science including the use of the microscope, mounting and preserving microscopic objects, the microscope in chemistry, biology, histology, botany, geology, pathology, etc.Author: Classic Public Domain
The microscope : its construction and management : including technique, photo-micrography, and the past and future of the microscopeAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Photographic optics and colour photography : including the camera, kinematograph, optical lantern, and the theory and practice of image formationAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Electric oscillations and Electric waves; with application to radiotelegraphy and incidental application to telephony and opticsAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Ferguson's lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy, and dialing : with notes and an appendix adapted to the present state of the arts and sciencesAuthor: Classic Public Domain
A system of natural philosophy: in which are explained the principles of mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, acoustics, optics ... Illus.Author: three hundred engravings
Microscope teachings : descriptions of various objects of especial interest and beauty : adapted for microscopic observation ...Author: Classic Public Domain
Practical treatise on the use of the microscope, including the different methods of preparing and examining animal, vegetable and mineral substancesAuthor: Classic Public Domain
How to use and care for the microscope, a simple treatise on the use of the microscope expecially adapted to laboratory workAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Astronomy without a telescope; a guide to the constellations, and introduction to the study of the heavens with the unassisted sight. By E. Walter Maunder ... IllustratedAuthor: star maps and key diagrams.
A practical treatise on the use of the microscope, including the different methods of preparing and examining animal, vegetable, and mineral structuresAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The microscope made easy: or, I. The nature, uses and magnifying powers of the best kinds of microscopes ... II. An account of what surprizing discoveries have been already madeAuthor: the microscope ..
Objects for the microscope; a popular description of the most instructive and beautiful subjects for exhibition or examinationAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Through a microscope; something of the science, together with many curious observations indoor and out and directions for a home-made microscopeAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Rocks and rock minerals; a manual of the elements of petrology without the use of the microscope, for the geologist, engineer, miner, architect, etc., and for instruction in colleges and schoolsAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Explore a carefully assembled historical library of 125 books devoted to optics and lenses. The selection prioritises useful, readable editions and substantial works.
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The optics of photography and photographic lenses
Physical optics
Geometrical optics
General and practical optics
A treatise on optics
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The Theory Of Optics
The Draper catalogue of stellar spectra photograhed with the 8-inch Bache telescope as a part of the Henry Draper memorial
Mirrors, prisms and lenses; a text-book of geometrical optics
Drops of water : their marvellous and beautiful inhabitants displayed by the microscope
Introduction to optical mineralogy and petrography : the practical methods of identifying minerals in thin section with the microscope and the principles involved in the classification of rocks
Fundamentals Of Optics Ed. 2nd
The microscope : its history, construction, and application, being a familiar introduction to the use of the instrument and the study of microscopical science
General and practical optics
Optic projection : principles, installation and use of the magic lantern, projection microscope, reflecting lantern, moving picture machine, fully illustrated with plates and with over 400 text-figures
The optics of photography and photographic lenses
The microscope and its revelations
Methods of using the microscope, camera-lucida and solar projector for purposes of examination and the production of illustrations
In starland with a three-inch telescope; a conveniently arranged guide for the use of the amateur astronomer, with forty diagrams of the constellations and eight of the moon
Minerals And The Microscope
Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, optics, and astronomy
The Microscope And Its Revelations; Eighth Edition.
A treatise on optics
Mosses with hand-lens and microscope; a non-technical hand-book of the more common mosses of the northeastern United States
Drops of water : their marvelous and beautiful inhabitants displayed by the microscope
Microscopy, the construction, theory and use of the microscope
The microscope : an introduction to microscopic methods and to histology
Elementary geometrical optics
Evenings at the microscope : or, Researches among the minuter organs and forms of animal life
Refraction and how to refract : including sections on optics, retinoscopy, the fitting of spectacles and eye-glasses, etc.
Optic projection : principles, installation and use of the magic lantern, projection microscope, reflecting lantern, moving picture machine
Outlines of applied optics
Physiologic optics : dioptrics of the eye, functions of the retina, ocular movements and binocular vision
Ophthalmic lenses and accessories; lenses, frames, magnifiers and readers ..
Cantor Lectures: The Microscope
Pleasures of the telescope;
General and practical optics [electronic resource]
Astronomy without a telescope; a guide to the constellations, and introduction to the study of the heavens with the unassisted sight
The telescope
Physical laboratory experiments : mechanics, optics and heat
A handbook of rocks, for use without the microscope
The Microscope Its Design Construction And Application
How to work with the microscope
The romance of the microscope, an interesting description of its uses in all branches of science, industry, agriculture, and in the detection of crime, with a short account of its origin, history & development
The microscope: its history, construction, and application, being a familiar introduction to the use of the instrument and the study of microscopial science
Elementary optics and applications to fire control instruments
Easy lessons in natural philosophy, natural history, mechanics, chemistry, electricity, optics, and acoustics
A beginner's star-book; an easy guide to the stars and to the astronomical uses of the opera-glass, the field-glass and the telescope
The microscope, : its history, construction, and applications: being a familiar introduction to the use of the instrument, and the study of microsopical science,
Micrographia illustrata: or, The microscope explained ... Likewise, a natural history of aerial, terrestrial, and aquatic animals, &c., considered as microscopic objects
Ophthalmic lenses and prisms, an essay contributed to "The American Encyclopedia of Ophthalmology."
Half-hours with the microscope; being a popular guide to the use of the microscope as a means of amusement and instruction
An introduction to the theory of optics
Evenings at the microscope
Hints on the preservation of living objects and their examination under the microscope
Tomato ketchup under the microscope; with practical suggestions to insure a cleanly product
One thousand objects for the microscope
The microscope in the brewery and malt-house
The microscopist; or, A complete manual on the use of the microscope ..
The microscope and histology for the use of laboratory students in the anatomical department of Cornell University. by Simon Henry Gage
Encyclopedia Britannica : Microscope, London 1797
On the construction of a silvered glass telescope, fifteen and a half inches in aperture, and its use in celestial photography
Common objects of the microscope
Employment for the microscope : in two parts
The wonders of optics
The beginner's guide to the microscope, with a section on mounting slides
Objects for the microscope, being a popular description of the most instructive and beautiful subjects for exhibition
Light; a course of experimental optics, chiefly with the lantern
The microscope; a simple handbook
The microscopist : a compendium of microscopic science including the use of the microscope, mounting and preserving microscopic objects, the microscope in chemistry, biology, histology, botany, geology, pathology, etc.
The microscope : its construction and management : including technique, photo-micrography, and the past and future of the microscope
Photographic optics and colour photography : including the camera, kinematograph, optical lantern, and the theory and practice of image formation
The microscope; its history, construction and application ..
Electric oscillations and Electric waves; with application to radiotelegraphy and incidental application to telephony and optics
How to see with the microscope
Ferguson's lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy, and dialing : with notes and an appendix adapted to the present state of the arts and sciences
Metallography, an introduction to the study of the structure of metals, chiefly by the aid of the microscope
A treatise on geometrical optics
A system of natural philosophy: in which are explained the principles of mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, acoustics, optics ... Illus. by three hundred engravings
Through the telescope
Hours With A Three-Inch Telescope
The principles and methods of geometrical optics, especially as applied to the theory of optical instruments
Microscope teachings : descriptions of various objects of especial interest and beauty : adapted for microscopic observation ...
Manipulation of the microscope
Practical treatise on the use of the microscope, including the different methods of preparing and examining animal, vegetable and mineral substances
Manual of advanced optics, by C. Riborg Mann
Thoughts on animalcules : or, A glimpse of the invisible world revealed by the microscope
The astronomical observer, a handbook to the observatory and the common telescope
The microscope: its history, construction, and applications
The microscope; a practical handbook
How to use the microscope; a guide for the novice
Astronomy without a telescope; a guide to the constellations, and introduction to the study of the heavens with the unassisted sight. By E. Walter Maunder ... Illustrated by star maps and key diagrams.
A practical treatise on the use of the microscope, including the different methods of preparing and examining animal, vegetable, and mineral structures
Le microscope son emploi et ses applications ..
Petrology for students; an introduction to the study of rocks ; under the microscope
Microscopic botany : a manual of the microscope in vegetable histology
Principles of microscopy, being a handbook to the microscope
Visual optics and sight testing
Half-hours with the microscope ..
Researches in physical optics
The botanist's companion; or, Directions for the use of the microscope
Curiosities of animal life; with the recent discoveries of the microscope
Helmholtz's Treatise on Physiological Optics
The microscope, or Descriptions of various objects of especial interest and beauty
The microscope, and some of the wonders it reveals
The microscope in theory and practice
Optics without mathematics
The microscope made easy: or, I. The nature, uses and magnifying powers of the best kinds of microscopes ... II. An account of what surprizing discoveries have been already made by the microscope ..
Objects for the microscope; a popular description of the most instructive and beautiful subjects for exhibition or examination
The microscope and microscopical technology, a text-book for physicians and students
Practical hints on the selection and use of the microscope. Intended for beginners
Through a microscope; something of the science, together with many curious observations indoor and out and directions for a home-made microscope
A treatise on physical optics
Rocks and rock minerals; a manual of the elements of petrology without the use of the microscope, for the geologist, engineer, miner, architect, etc., and for instruction in colleges and schools
The microscope : [excerpts] from The museum of science and art
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