The Diamond Lens (Paperback)

FROM a very early period of my life the entire bent of my inclinations had been toward 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. Seeing me so interested in this rude instrument, my cousin explained to me all that he knew about the principles of the microscope, related to me a few of the wonders which had been accomplished through its agency, and ended by promising to send me one regularly constructed, immediately on his return to the city. I counted the days, the hours, the minutes that intervened between that promise and his departure.

General

Imprint:	Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2012
First published:	February 2012
Authors:	Fitz-James O'Brien
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 3mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	48
ISBN-13:	978-1-4701-0073-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-4701-0073-8
Barcode:	9781470100735

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