A REPORT CONCERNING THE MICROSCOPE GLASSES SENT AS A PRESENT TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY, BY FATHER DI TORRE OF NAPLES, AND REFFERED TO THE EXAMINATION OF MR. BAKER

The Royal Society, 1766. Octavo, pages 67-72. In Very Good minus condition. Section of a larger text bound in brown paper. Covers have bending near spine, creasing to front cover, and mild shelf wear. Textblock has mild foxing to pages. Horology Binder, Room A Ephemera.

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From the collection of Silvio Bedini. Bedini spent twenty five years at the Smithsonian Institution, serving as curator in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in the new Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) before serving as first Assistant Director then Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology. He then served as Keeper of Rare Books at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, before becoming a Historian Emeritus. He specialized in early scientific instruments.