ABSTRACT

Parents and guardians of youth, who feel desirous of promoting a taste for chemistry and natural philosophy in the minds of the young, from seeing what rapid advances these sciences are making, and how necessary their acquaintance to all, will find nothing promote their wishes, nor their children’s enjoyment, more than procuring for them an assortment of apparatus. As the microscope is capable of affording a vast field for amusement and instruction, opening a new world and displaying the most extensive scenes of creative power, wisdom, and design. As the microscope is capable of affording a vast field for amusement and instruction, opening a new world and displaying the most extensive scenes of creative power, wisdom, and design; and it being difficult to find in print any information concerning it, a minute description of one of the kinds is given, which will be found applicable to all the others.