| | 1 | Author: | O'Brien, Fitz-James | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Diamond Lens  | | | | Published: | 1993 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | From a very early period of my life the entire bent of my
inclinations had been towards 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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