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Excerpt from The Microscope: Its History, Construction, and Application, Being a Familiar Introduction to the Use of the Instrument and the Study of Microscopical Science
Thehistoryof the microscope, like thatof nationsand arts. Has had its brilliantperiods, inwhichitshonewith uncommon splendour, and was cultivated with extraordi naryardour; and these have beensucceededhy intervals marked with no discovery, and in which the science seemed tofadeaway, oratleastto liedormant, till some favour able oircnmstance - the discovery ofa new object, or some new improvement in the instruments of observation awakenedtheattentionofthecuriouaandreanimated their rewarches. Thus, soon after the invention of the micro-cape, the field it ted to observation was culti vated bymenot'the whinecience, whoenriched almost ev branch of natural history by the they madeergy means of this instrument.
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