1[June 1786] (Adams Papers)
through the microscope, and the magic Lantern, and the camera obscura, that something got broke, and Mr. Williams, shew nothing more after it. Weather very warm, several of us, bath’d in the River this afternoon.
22d. (Adams Papers)
through the microscope, and the magic Lantern, and the camera obscura, that something got broke, and Mr. Williams, shew nothing more after it. Weather very warm, several of us, bath’d in the River this afternoon.
3[June 1787] (Adams Papers)
At 11, we had another lecture upon the optical instruments; the solar microscope,The solar microscope was mounted on a window shutter and used in a darkened room; a mirror reflecting sunlight through the instrument projected the image of the specimen on the wall (David P. Wheatland and I. Bernard Cohen,
4Friday June 1st. 1787. (Adams Papers)
At 11, we had another lecture upon the optical instruments; the solar microscope,The solar microscope was mounted on a window shutter and used in a darkened room; a mirror reflecting sunlight through the instrument projected the image of the specimen on the wall (David P. Wheatland and I. Bernard Cohen,
5John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 26 December 1795 (Adams Papers)
of the great man seems to look through the parental microscope. If the flattery of my Vanity, constituted my happiness, I could not possibly wish for higher gratification; but you know what value I am apt to set upon my own opinions; when others go beyond my own...
6To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 8 March 1805 (Adams Papers)
...at Baltimore, containing political opinions, obnoxious to the predominating sentiments of the day, and to the party now in power—This was certainly not a very prudent act, but even the microscope of party Spirit could not magnify it into an impeachable misdemeanour.—The constitutional majority necessary to convict could not be obtained for any of the charges separately, nor for the whole...
7To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 31 August 1811 (Adams Papers)
...than that of being their fellow-citizen—To attempt to limit the rights and duties and relations resulting from political association, within the necessarily narrow bounds of personal affection friendship or consanguinity is to look at the moon through a microscope. The whole Continent of North-America appears to me destined by Divine Providence to be people by one
8From John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 28 March 1822 (Adams Papers)
of them all—ascertain where and by whom they were made—Examine as far as you may be permitted to the construction of them—Let not the Telescope, the Microscope, the Air–pump, the Electrical Machine, the Sextant, the repeating Circle, the Theodolite, nor any other of the Instruments which you will see used to explain the Lectures and experiments escape your most inquisitive Scrutiny—Study them...