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MICSCAPE - Exploring the miniature world Issue 209 - March 2013 : Articles this month (ISSN 1365 - 070x) Updated on 13th of each month. | |||||||||||||||||||
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In Focus: The Micscape Index layout has been revised to make better use of a single screen view on smaller computers with modest vertical pixel count as these models are becoming increasingly popular. The sharp-eyed author D S Spence in his regular series 'From My Notebook' for the journal 'The Microscope' 1951, vol. 8,, no. 6, p.152 in an item headed 'A Disappointed Microscopist?' quoted an intriguing advert in an 1890 'Science Gossip' and wondered what made this Victorian microscopist so 'downcast' with the hobby. The original advert is shown below. Given that £200 in 1890 is equivalent to over £21 000 in 2012 (Bank of England's inflation calculator), there seems to be a moral here somewhere, perhaps equally valid today—owning the finest equipment of the time doesn't necessarily guarantee the owner's satisfaction!
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