This book is an English translation of the French original, written in 1664. Written after Monsieur Sorbière (1615-1670) spent three months in 1663 in England, this book details his thoughts on several different topics.…

This page introduces a letter written to King Louis XIV (1638-1715), published in A Voyage to England: Containing Many Things Relating to the State of Learning, Religion, and Other Curiosities of that Kingdom. It was…

This page introduces the section of A Voyage to England: Containing Many Things Relating to the State of Learning, Religion, and Other Curiosities of that Kingdom that contains a memoir of the life of Monsieur Samuel…

This plate from A Voyage to England: Containing Many Things Relating to the State of Learning, Religion, and Other Curiosities of that Kingdom. It depicts a floor plan Samuel Sorbière (1615-1670) saw during his visit to…

This page is from A Voyage to England: Containing Many Things Relating to the State of Learning, Religion, and Other Curiosities of that Kingdom, published in 1709. This page is notable due to the existence of a typo in…

This title page from A Voyage to England: Containing Many Things Relating to the State of Learning, Religion, and Other Curiosities of that Kingdom works as a combined title page and index, laying out the order of the…

Although written in the sixteenth century, this first edition printing was edited and published by Giovanni Maria Lancisi (1654–1720) in 1717. By as early as 1574, Mercati (1541–1593), director of the Vatican botanical…

Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738) was a Dutch botanist, chemist, and physician. Boerhaave introduced a quantitative approach to medical training and was the first to integrate chemistry into the medical curriculum; he is…

Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738) was a Dutch botanist, chemist, and physician. Boerhaave introduced a quantitative approach to medical training and was the first to integrate chemistry into the medical curriculum; he is…

Engraved plate depicts the components of James Wilson's (active 1702-1710) single pocket-microscope, which is explained in detail in chapter III. Wilson introduced this screw-barrel microscope to the Royal Society in…

Engraved plate depicts the components of a pocket microscope with a mirror or speculum used to project light through the specimen. The parts and functionality are explained in detail in chapter IV, entitled "A new…

Plate III depicts the double reflecting microscope, which is described as having a greater ease of use than John Marshall's (1663-1725) great double microscope. The components and operation are discussed in detail in…

Engraved plate depicts the components of a microscope that can examine opaque objects. Using the compass microscope as a basis for the design, this microscope incorporated a hinged focusing system with a reflector or…

As described on accompanying pages listed next to the illustrations, this plate illustrates animalcules or unicellular organisms discovered under magnification when examining water from a ditch. Baker reflects on how…

This diagram engraving and accompanying chapter X entitled "To find out the real Size of Objects Seen by Microscopes" gives direction for how objects under magnification can be measured. The circle labeled ABCD…

Described on page sixty one, this plate illustrates a pattern for a box that can be constructed to hold microscope slides containing specimens. The bottom of the box contains a spot for pliers for use with handling the…

As described on accompanying pages listed next to the illustrations, this plate illustrates animalcules or unicellular organisms discovered under magnification when black pepper is added to water and lies stagnant for…

As described on accompanying pages listed next to the illustrations, this plate illustrates animalcules or unicellular organisms discovered under magnification and adhering to Lens Palustris or duckweed.

This plate…

As described on accompanying pages listed next to the illustrations, this plate illustrates blood cells (figures I & II), arteries (figure III), veins (figure IIII), and platelets (figure V) under magnification.

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As described on accompanying pages listed next to the illustrations, this plate illustrates a frog's foot (figure I), a fish's tail (figure II) and an example of the leg of a fly/gnat/ant (figure III) under…

As described on accompanying pages listed next to the illustrations, this plate illustrates semen from various animals and a human (fig. VII) under magnification.

This plate comes from The Microscope Made Easy by Henry…

As described on accompanying pages listed next to the illustrations, this plate illustrates animalcules or unicellular organisms discovered under magnification when examining teeth (figure I), along with scabies (figure…

As described on accompanying pages listed next to the illustrations, this plate illustrates various substances under magnification. Includes vinegar salts (figure I), salt after adding vinegar to crab eyes (figure II),…

This book popularized the microscope in the 18th century. The first section describes simple and compound microscopes along with how to prepare specimens and calculate their size. The second section introduces the…