Placing a hair before this simply-constructed instrument, he found to his great joy that he was the maker and possessor of a capital microscope for those times, and he secured to the micrographers ...

The History of the Microscope: Compiled from Original Instruments and Documents, up to the Introduction of the Achromatic Microscope. By Dr. Reginald S. Clay Thomas H. Court. Pp. xiv + 266.

To celebrate MicroScope’s 40th anniversary, we ask channel leaders to reflect on the changes seen over the past four decades – a shift to software, and the emergence of the managed service ...

He may have inherited it from his father, also a zoologist and in fact keeper of zoology at the Natural History museum. It's called a Withering microscope, after a medical student called William ...