The Diamond Lens (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781515106630)

FROM a very early period of my life the entire bent of my inclinations had been toward microscopic investigations. When I was not more than ten years old, a distant relative of our family, hoping to astonish my inexperience, constructed a simple microscope for me by drilling in a disk of copper a small hole in which a drop of pure water was sustained by capillary attraction. This very primitive apparatus, magnifying some fifty diameters, presented, it is true, only indistinct and imperfect forms, but still sufficiently wonderful to work up my imagination to a preternatural state of excitement.

Author: Fitz James O'Brien
ISBN-10: 1515106632
ISBN-13: 9781515106630
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/16/2015
Pages: 30
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.12lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.06d