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CORNING, NY — To closely inspect the evolution of the microscope, the Corning Museum of Glass is highlighting the lens-making behind the optical tool. Revealing the Invisible includes one of the few ...

WHEN public interest in the curiosities of science was widespread, some fifty years ago, the possession of a microscope was a social necessity. The instrument to-day is no longer the popular plaything ...

THE views expressed in the previous notice of this work which appeared in NATURE (February 6, 1908) would appear to have been amply borne out in the welcome accorded to it by the public, since a ...

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