PART I.
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EARLY HISTORY OF THE MICROSCOPE 1
CHAPTER I.
LIGHT--ITS PROPAGATION--REFRACTION--SPHERICAL AND CHROMATIC ABERRATION--HUMAN EYE--FORMATION OF IMAGES--VISUAL ANGLE--ABBÉ’S THEORY OF MICROSCOPIC VISION--DEFINITION OF APERTURE--NUMERICAL APERTURE--ABBÉ’S APERTOMETER--STEREOSCOPIC BINOCULAR VISION 12
CHAPTER II.
SIMPLE AND COMPOUND MICROSCOPES--EVOLUTION OF THE MODERN ACHROMATIC MICROSCOPE--IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODERN MICROSCOPE: THE ROSS-JACKSON, POWELL AND LEALAND, BECK’S, BAKER’S, PILLISCHER, ZEISS, LEITZ, WATSON’S, VAN HEURCK’S EDINBURGH STUDENTS’, SWIFT’S, AND BACTERIOLOGICAL 72
CHAPTER III.
APPLIED OPTICS--EYE-PIECES--ACHROMATIC OBJECTIVES AND CONDENSERS--MAGNIFYING POWER OF EYE-PIECES AND OBJECTIVES--METHOD OF EMPLOYING THE CONDENSER--ITS ILLUMINATION MIRROR--ACCESSORIES OF THE MICROSCOPE--FINDERS--MICROMETERS--CAMERA-LUCIDA--MICROSCOPE IN POSITION FOR DRAWING--ABBÉ’S TEST-PLATE--MICRO-PHOTOGRAPHY--POLARISATION OF LIGHT--THE MICRO-SPECTROSCOPE 139
CHAPTER IV.
PRACTICAL MICROSCOPY--MANIPULATION--MODE OF EMPLOYING THE MICROSCOPE--WORKING ACCESSORIES--METHODS OF PREPARING, HARDENING, STAINING, AND SECTION CUTTING--CUTTING HARD STRUCTURES--INJECTING APPARATUS, MATERIAL, ETC., EMPLOYED IN BACTERIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS--WARM CHAMBERS AND INCUBATORS--PREPARING, MOUNTING, CEMENTING, AND COLLECTING OBJECTS 258