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What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesachromatic acid angle animal animalcule aperture appear arrangement axis beautiful become body bone bone-cells branches Busk calcareous Canada balsam cavity cells centre cilia colour composed compound consists convex lens covered crystals delicate dentine deposit diameter disc edge eggs Ehrenberg endoplasts examined exhibit extremity eye-piece fibres fleshy fluid Flustra focus Foraminifera gemmules glass granular matter hair Haversian canals horny Infusoria insect instrument larva layer lens lenses lines magnifying power mass matter membrane microscope microscopist minute motion mouth muscular nature nucleolus object object-glass observed organs outer passing pencil perfect periplast piece placed plants Plate polarised light polype portion prism proboscis rays refraction resembling round screw seen shape shell side siliceous skin species specimens spicula spines sponges stage stem stomach structure substance surface tentacula thickness thin tion tissue tourmaline transparent transverse tube vegetable vessels Volvox whilst whole zoophyte Popular passagesPage 435 - And when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have reason to think that it is suitable to the magnificent harmony -of the universe, and the great design and infinite goodness of the architect, that the species o'f creatures should also, by gentle degrees, ascend upward from us toward his infinite perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards... Page 445 - Webster's Dictionary of the English Language, Exhibiting the Origin, Orthography, Pronunciation, and Definitions of Words. Abridged from the Quarto Edition of the Author. To which are added a Synopsis of Words differently Pronounced by different Orthoepists ; and Walker's Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names. Page 434 - ... less than a mite, or to compare in his thoughts a length of a thousand diameters of the earth, with that of a million, and he will quickly find that he has no different measures in his mind adjusted to such extraordinary degrees of grandeur or minuteness. Page 436 - And who that hath watched their ways with an understanding heart, could, as the vision evolving still advanced towards him, contemplate the filial and loyal bee ; the home-building, wedded, and divorceless swallow ; and, above all, the manifoldly intelligent ant tribes, with their... Page 435 - Every rank of creatures, as it ascends in the scale of creation, leaves death behind it or under it. The metal at its height of being seems a mute prophecy of the coming vegetation, into a mimic semblance of which it crystallizes. Page 337 - Contrivance intricate express'd with ease, Where unassisted sight no beauty sees, The shapely limb and lubricated joint, Within the small dimensions of a point, Muscle and nerve miraculously spun, His mighty work who speaks and it is done, The invisible in things scarce seen reveal'd, To whom an atom is an ample field. Page 215 - ... around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention, but, after twenty-five minutes' of constant observation, I was obliged to withdraw my eye from fatigue, without having seen the torrent for one instant change its direction, or diminish in the slightest degree the rapidity of its course. Page 438 - A critic fly, whose feeble ray scarce spreads An inch around, with blind presumption bold, Should dare to tax the structure of the whole. And lives the man, whose universal eye Has swept at once th... Page 152 - ... matter. These invisible animalcules may be compared, in the great organic world, to the minute capillaries in the microcosm of the animal body ; receiving organic matter in its state of minutest subdivision, and when in full career to escape from the organic system, turning it back, by a new route, towards the central and highest point of that system. Page 449 - Nineveh and its Palaces. The Discoveries of Botta and Layard applied to the Elucidation of Holy Writ. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarOn the late invention of the stereoscopeNicholas J Wade - 1987 - Perception A note on the history of binocular microscopesNicholas J Wade - 1981 - Perception Vision and the Dimensions of Nerve FibersNICHOLAS J WADE - 2005 - Journal of the History of the Neurosciences Sparks Of LifeHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH References from web pagesReviews: The Microscope, its History, Construction, and ... Bibliographic information
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