Accordingly, microscopists in the 17th and 18th centuries experimented with various types of glass for their lenses alongside the mechanics of the microscopes themselves, working to increase ...

"Two Microscopes made by G. Adams for King George III." By R. S. Clay and T. H. Court . Jour. R. Micr. Soc., pp. 268–273; 1926; and Supplementary Note, Jour. R ...

Christie’s science specialist James Hyslop says that an 18th-century microscope without a maker’s mark could fetch £500, but had the maker signed the piece, it would bring in £3,000.

October 19, 1781, was not a good day for men of the Bayreuth-Ashbach Regiment. At order of their ruler and at behest of Great Britain’s King George III, also the king of the German state of ...

A microscope manufactured specifically for Captain Cook’s maiden voyage of discovery of Australia in the 18th century is about to go under the hammer. It is expected to fetch between $59,000 and ...