“Microscope” — A Lost Poem by Louis Ginsberg
THE MICROSCOPE
2013, Volume 61:2, pp. 85–87
DOI
https://doi.org/10.59082/KEXG5988
AUTHORS
Randy Wayne
ABSTRACT
Microscopists know that the world is both big and small. Every year I take my light microscopy class to the Rare & Manuscript Collections at Kroch Library of Cornell University. David Corson, the curator of the History of Science Collections, shares his knowledge and love of books and science with my students. He makes it possible for my students to travel through time when he shows them Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (published in 1665, Christian Huygens’ Traiteì de la lumiere (1690), Isaac Newton’s Opticks, or, A treatise of the reflections, inflections and colours of light (1704), Henry Baker’s The microscope made easy (1741), George Adam’s Micrographia illustrata (1746), his son George’s Essays on the microscope (1787), Thomas Young’s A course of lectures on natural philosophy and the mechanical arts (1807) and many other books on light and microscopy.