Essays on the Microscope: Containing a Practical Description of the Most Improved Microscopes, a General History of Insects, etc., etc.Adams, George
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Essays on the Microscope: Containing a Practical Description of the Most Improved Microscopes, a General History of Insects, etc., etc.
Adams, George
Insects -- Early works to 1800; Microscopy -- Early works to 1800
The management of the light from the lamp, through the lens, _a_, and
from the concave mirror, _b_, to the objects, is exactly the same as
before directed by Mr. Adams. For the exhibiting of transparent objects,
the stage, C, is to be slid away, and the body, Fig. 4, applied in its
place, in that position, with the large lens outwards next the lamp. The
slider with the objects passes through at _a_, and the focus for the
different magnifiers is adjusted by turning the long rod, D, to the
right or left, as with the opake objects. In this case the lamp is to be
raised to the center of the body of the microscope, or even with the
magnifiers at L. The image of the objects may also, as in Mr. Adams’s,
be best received on the rough glass placed at F, for the simple
reflected light through the body will sometimes be so strong, as to
irritate the eye; the operator must, therefore, both modify that from
the lamp, and place the roughed glass to his own ease and pleasure. The
guide for the eye, N, in this instance is not necessary. Care being
taken that the roughed glass at F be kept in as dark a situation as
possible, there will be a certainty of a clear and well-defined view of
the object.
A tin chimney placed over the glass of the lamp about ten inches long,
with a suitable aperture to admit the light to pass through it to the
glasses, is of material service; it excludes all superfluous light from
the eye of the observer, keeps the room sufficiently darkened, and
enables the observer to view his object with the proper brilliancy. As a
pleasing relief to the eye, the interposition of a small piece of blue
or green glass at the sight hole, N, Mr. Jones has sometimes found
necessary, but it gives rather a false teint to the colour of the
objects.
In the year 1789 the same artist applied a brass screw pillar and arm to
the top of the box at O, on which is occasionally slid the condensing
lens, _a_. The lamp being then applied at the side of the box at O,
instead of the end, and the lens, _a_, moved to such a distance as to
give the strongest possible light upon the opake objects at C; they were
found to be more strongly illuminated by this simple refracted light
than by the refracted and reflected light before used. Light is always
somewhat diminished by reflection, although condensed; therefore, as it
is sometimes best to view the objects from oblique reflected light, and
sometimes from direct refracted, he constructs the apparatus so as to
give the operator the means of easily using either. The dotted lines, O
P, shew the manner that the glass semiglobe, _a_, is occasionally
applied to refract or converge directly the light from the lamp to the
objects on the stage.
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