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Microscope design and construction - Book

#1 Post by patta » Sat Feb 05, 2022 12:27 pm

I was searching information about the English manufacturer "Cooke, Troughton & Simms", so stumbled in this book

"Microscope design and construction" B.O. Payne 1957

It is online at archive.org (maybe need to make a free account)

Warmly recommend this book! It is only 200 pages; contains 90% of the answers to our weirdest questions. Being so old, nothing is left as obvious.
It has a simple and actual explanation of how phase contrast works :o .
Best illustrations I've ever seen.
1957. Still golden age in England. Below an example, a serious issue for which many of you couldn't sleep at night.
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Re: Microscope design and construction - Book

#2 Post by mikemarotta » Sun Feb 06, 2022 1:17 am

patta wrote:
Sat Feb 05, 2022 12:27 pm
... so stumbled in this book "Microscope design and construction" B.O. Payne 1957
It is online at archive.org (maybe need to make a free account)
Fascinating reference! Thanks for the recommendation.

Microscope design and construction
by Bryan Oliver Payne, M.Sc. D.I.C., F. Inst. P.
York, Cooke, Troughton & Simms, 1957

I have an Archive dot Org account and have contributed also.

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Mike M.
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Re: Microscope design and construction - Book

#3 Post by Dubious » Sun Feb 06, 2022 4:03 am

I didn't find it on archive.org--will have to try again. But I did find it on Amazon, apparently part of some reprint project:

https://www.amazon.com/Microscope-Desig ... 298&sr=1-1

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Re: Microscope design and construction - Book

#4 Post by MichaelG. » Sun Feb 06, 2022 9:44 am

Dubious wrote:
Sun Feb 06, 2022 4:03 am
I didn't find it on archive.org--will have to try again.
It appears to be a ‘Loan’ item : https://archive.org/details/microscopedesign0000payn

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Re: Microscope design and construction - Book

#5 Post by Chas » Sun Feb 06, 2022 10:12 pm

Thanks, great book ..I have learnt a thing or two :-)
And thanks for the direct link!

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Re: Microscope design and construction - Book

#6 Post by Dubious » Mon Feb 07, 2022 4:42 am

Thanks for the link. Interesting, I did not know of archive.org's "loan" function. I am now a member, and the site loaned the book to me for one hour--seems like they could do longer, given that the book is apparently out of copyright. Lots of interesting photos of vintage/antique equipment.

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Re: Microscope design and construction - Book

#7 Post by annissteversonfir57 » Mon Nov 14, 2022 10:59 am

patta wrote:
Sat Feb 05, 2022 12:27 pm
I was searching information about the English manufacturer "Cooke, Troughton & Simms", so stumbled in this book

"Microscope design and construction" B.O. Payne 1957

It is online at archive.org (maybe need to make a free account)

Warmly recommend this book! It is only 200 pages; contains 90% of the answers to our weirdest questions. Being so old, nothing is left as obvious.
It has a simple and actual explanation of how phase contrast works :o .
Best illustrations I've ever seen.
1957. Still golden age in England. Below an example, a serious issue for which many of you couldn't sleep at night.
I rarely see books that are recommended with such passion and desire. Usually, they just describe it and that's it, a person gets interested. But here it's different, I'm just fired up. I even asked to "write my speech for me," used https://paperell.net/write-my-speech to do it. I decided not to write the speech myself for college, but to spend that time specifically on the book, as strange as that may be. It does have very unusual and specific illustrations. It looks fantastic. I hope I also find all the answers in it that have bothered me so much to this day.
Well, after such a recommendation, it definitely needs to be studied and read! Thanks
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Re: Microscope design and construction - Book

#8 Post by MichaelG. » Mon Nov 14, 2022 2:15 pm

It’s interesting to see how this came to be on archive.org
https://archive.org/details/trent_university?tab=about

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Re: Microscope design and construction - Book

#9 Post by ldflan » Mon Nov 14, 2022 9:12 pm

MichaelG. wrote:
Mon Nov 14, 2022 2:15 pm
It’s interesting to see how this came to be on archive.org
https://archive.org/details/trent_university?tab=about

MichaelG.
That is interesting. Some Canadian universities have been having real financial troubles lately. Looks like Trent found a way to reduce the costs of maintaining part of their physical library, and we all benefit...

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