Author: LEREBOURS, N.-P.
Title: Galérie microscopique, (traduction du microscopic cabinet de M. Pritchard), augmentée de notes....collection choisie d'objets microscopiques, de test objects, etc. Contenant en outre la description des microscopes en pierres précieuses, un mémoire du docteur Goring sur la vérification des phénomènes microscopiques, et suivie d'une instruction pratique;
Description: Paris, N.-P. Lerebours; Fortin, Masson et Cie., 1843. W 12 (of which 10 handcol.) engr.pls. and some figs. i.t.t. Contemp.pr.wr. (Sl.soiling, spine end dam., 1 hinge split.). (VIII, 224 pp.). Clay/Court, p. 76: "In 1824 Pritchard, at the suggestion of Dr. Goring...succeeded on December 1st in making a diamond lens."....the most important experiments were made with lenses worked from jewel stones, such as sapphire, garnet, ruby, topaz and diamond. Such lenses should have a superiority over glass lenses.....": Daumas p.303 and 375: until his death in 1840 Lerebours (the father of the translator) was working on a huge lens for the Paris observatory, finished by his son in 1844, who formed a firm with Marc Secretan in 1845: Van Cittert, p. 75: "In the middle of the 19th c. Lerebours et Secretan became very well known for their construction of achromatic microscopes.".

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