Essays on the Microscope / Containing a Practical Description of the Most Improved Microscopes, a General History of Insects, etc., etc.

by George Adams

CHAP. II.

Of Vision; of the optical Effects of Microscopes, and of the Manner of estimating their magnifying Powers. [p. 26].

CHAP. III.

A Description of the most improved Microscopes, and the Method of using them. [p. 64].

CHAP. IV.

General Instructions for using the Microscope, and preparing the Objects. [p. 129].

CHAP. V.

The Importance of Natural History; of Insects in general, and of their constituent Parts. [p. 167].

CHAP. VI.

A general View of the internal Parts of Insects, and more particularly of the Caterpillar of the Phalæna Cossus. A Description of sundry miscellaneous Objects. [p. 334].