The microscope / by Dionysius Lardner ... ; [excerpts] from "The museum of science and art" ; with one hundred and forty

The Smithsonian catalogs The microscope / by Dionysius Lardner ... ; [excerpts] from "The museum of science and art" ; with one hundred and forty as electronic resources in its Microscopy--Popular works records.

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The Smithsonian lists the object under Microscopy--Popular works and dates it 1856.

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Smithsonian InstitutionThe microscope / by Dionysius Lardner ... ; [excerpts] from "The museum of science and art" ; with one hundred and forty

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