The Microscope Volume 6
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(RareBooksClub.com, May 20, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...inventors to improve our other senses, of hearing, smelling, tasting, touching. 'Tis not impossible to hear a whisper a furlong's distance, it having been already done; and perhaps the nature of the thing would not make it more impossible, though that furlong should be ten times multiplied. And though some famous authors have affirmed it impossible to hear through the thinnest plate of Muscovy glass, yet I know a way, by which it is easy enough to hear one speak through a wall a yard thick. It has not yet been thoroughly examined, how far Otocousticons may be improved, nor what other ways there may be of quickening our hearing, or conveying sound through other bodies than the air; for that is not the only medium, I can assure the reader that I have, by the help of a distended wire, propagated the sound to a very considerable dis. tance in an instant, or with as seemingly quick a motion as that of light, at least, incomparably swifter than that, which at the same time was propagated through the air; and this not only in a straight line, or direct, but in one bended in many angles.--From works of Robert Hooke, published in 1664. WHAT TO WORK WITH. It is often a matter of question with the beginner what objects shall be examined with the microscope. The answer, roughly speaking, would be everything; for whatever is not already small enough, can by proper treatment be reduced to the proper dimensions. For this purpose Nature has a great storehouse of hidden treasures, which she is ever ready to render up to the dilligent seeker. Field and woodland, hill and valley, earth and water, are ever at hand, teeming with wonders, many of which, too minute for the eye of man, only reveal their beauties to the microscope,--the king of the invisible. If you understand taxi...