COMPOUND MICROSCOPE • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Compound microscope

... year Joseph Jackson Lister, an English amateur optician, contributed to the Royal Society the famous paper detailing his recent experiments with the compound microscope. Aided by Tully, a celebrated optician, Lister succeeded in making of the microscope a practical scientific implement rather than a toy. With the help of his own instrument Lister was able to settle the long mooted question as to the ...

— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson