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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Franklin, Benjamin | A Short Account of the Library, [13 July 1741] | 1741-07-13 | ...-Pump, with its Apparatus, a large double Microscope, and other valuable Instruments, from the... | |
| 2 | Directors of Library Company | Penn, John | Directors of Library Company to John Penn, 3 August … | 1741-08-03 | ...to the Library Company of a curious Microscope and Camera Obscura is received. This fresh... |
| 3 | Franklin, Benjamin | Extracts from the Gazette, 1742 | ≈1742-01-06 | ...A Choice Parcel of the best Spectacles, Microscopes, large and small Pocket Compasses with... | |
| 4 | Franklin, Benjamin | Extracts from the Gazette, 1744 | ≈1744-01-03 | ...Philadelphia, The Solar, or Camera Obscura Microscope, which magnifies Objects to a... | |
| 5 | Franklin, Benjamin | Poor Richard Improved, 1748 | ≈1748-01-01 | ...workmanship! And yet there are little animals discovered by the microscope, to whom a | |
| 6 | Collinson, Peter | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Peter Collinson, 3 July 1750 | 1750-07-03 | Micrographia Illustrata; or, The Knowledge of the Microscope explained...double Microscope; a... |
| 7 | Franklin, Benjamin | Poor Richard Improved, 1751 | ≈1751-01-01 | That admirable Instrument the Microscope has opened to us of these latter Ages, a......Microscope... | |
| 8 | Franklin, Benjamin | Perkins, John | From Benjamin Franklin to John Perkins, 4 February 1753 | 1753-02-04 | .... It is thus, that a Hair in a Microscope evidently appears to be a Pipe, the Sides... |
| 9 | Franklin, Benjamin | Bowdoin, James | From Benjamin Franklin to James Bowdoin, 13 December … | 1753-12-13 | ...Drop of Kennel Water magnify’d by the Solar Microscope to the Bigness of a Cart Wheel, there... |
| 10 | Collinson, Peter | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Peter Collinson, 14 January … | 1754-01-14 | ...Poor John Bartram has lost his Two Guinea Microscope and prints for Billey Seeds and Two or... |