 | Microscopes - 1854 - 470 pages
...bring the prisms nearer together, and tilt the oculars to correspond, and the image waxes marvellously immense, and taking a position perhaps apparently...feet distant, the being, too small to be seen with naked eyes, vies with the great whale of the ocean in size ; wearing an aspect more awful to behold... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1856 - 354 pages
...prisms nearer together, and tilt the oculars so as to correspond, and the image waxes marvellously immense ; and, taking a position, perhaps, apparently more than a hundred feet distant, this being, too small to be seen with the naked eyes, vies with the great whale of the ocean in size,... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1856 - 342 pages
...prisms nearer together, and tilt the oculars so as to correspond, and the image waxes marvellously immense ; and, taking a position, perhaps, apparently more than a hundred feet distant, this being, too small to be seen with the naked eyes, vies with the great whale of the ocean in size,... | |
 | Cytology - 1854 - 472 pages
...bring the prisms nearer together, and tilt the oculars to correspond, and the image waxes marvellously immense, and taking a position perhaps apparently...feet distant, the being, too small to be seen with naked eyes, vies with the great whale of the ocean in size ; wearing an aspect more awful to behold... | |
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