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Optics: a simple microscope, concealed within a book binding. Engraving.
Wellcome Collection

Optics: a simple microscope, concealed within a book binding. Engraving.

1820

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Ayscough's universal microscope

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