The Diamond Lens.doc

THE DIAMOND LENSBy Fitz-James O’brienIFROM a very early period of my life the entire bent of my inclinationshad been toward microscopic investigations. When I was not more thanten years old, a distant relative of our family, hoping to astonish myinexperience, constructed a simple microscope for me by drilling in adisk of copper a small hole in which a drop of pure water was sustainedby capillary attraction. This very primitive apparatus, magnifying somefifty diameters, presented, i (more…)

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