Micrographia: Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon — John Shaqi
Micrographia: Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries ThereuponHooke, Robert
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Micrographia: Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
Hooke, Robert
Magnifying glasses -- Early works to 1800; Microscopy -- Early works to 1800; Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works
By means of this Instrument I can with _little trouble_, and a very small
quantity of any _Liquor_, examine, most accurately, the _refraction_ of it
not only for one inclination, but for all; and thereby am inabled to make
very accurate Tables; several of which I have also experimentally made, and
find, that _Oyl of Turpentine_ has a much greater Refraction then _Spirit
of Wine_, though it be _lighter_; and that _Spirit of Wine_ has a greater
Refraction then _Water_, though it be lighter also; but that _salt Water_
also has a greater Refraction then _fresh_, though it be _heavier_: but
_Alum water_ has a less refraction then common _Water_, though heavier
also. So that it seems, as to the _refraction_ made in a Liquor, the
_specifick gravity_ is of no efficacy. By this I have also found that look
what _proportion _the _Sine_ of the Angle of _one Inclination_ has to the
_Sine_ of the Angle of _Refraction_, correspondent to it, the same
_proportion_ have all the _Sines_ of other Inclinations to the _Sines_ of
their appropriate Refractions.
My way for measuring how much a Glass magnifies an Object, plac’d at a
convenient distance from my eye, is this. Having rectifi’d the
_Microscope_, to see the desir’d Object through it very distinctly, at
the same time that I look upon the Object through the Glass with one
eye, I look upon other Objects at the same distance with my other bare
eye; by which means I am able, by the help of a _Ruler_ divided into
inches and small parts, and laid on the _Pedestal_ of the _Microscope_,
to cast, as it were, the magnifi’d appearance of the Object upon the
Ruler, and thereby exactly to measure the Diameter it appears of
through the Glass, which being compar’d with the Diameter it appears of
to the naked eye, will easily afford the quantity of its magnifying.
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