The Diamond Lens

The Diamond Lens

The Diamond LensThis story, published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1858, was the first of the great...
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Author: O'Brien, Fitz James,1828-1862
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Language: English
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The Diamond Lens

The Diamond Lens

¥2,124 ¥1,061

The Diamond Lens

¥2,124 ¥1,061
Author: O'Brien, Fitz James,1828-1862
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Diamond Lens

This story, published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1858, was the first of the great weird-scientific stories. It won immediate popularity for the authora popularity which continued unbroken until his death in the Civil War. From a very early period of my life the entire bent of my inclinations had been towards microscopic investigations. When I was not more than ten years old, a distant relative of our family, hoping to astonish my inexperience, constructed a simple microscope for me, by drilling in a disk of copper a small hole, in which a drop of pure water was sustained by capillary attraction. This very primitive apparatus, magnifying some fifty diameters, presented, it is true, only indistinct and imperfect forms, but still sufficiently wonderful to work up my imagination to a preternatural state of excitement. Seeing me so interested in this rude instrument, my cousin explained to me all that he knew about the principles of the microscope, related to me a few of the wonders which had been accomplished through its agency, and ended by promising to send me one regularly constructed, immediately on his return to the city. I counted the days, the hours, the minutes, that intervened between that promise and his departure. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 50332
Author: O'Brien, Fitz James
Release Date: Oct 28, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English

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