Download or read book The Diamond Lens written by Fitz-James O’Brien and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How I longed to discover the secret of some perfect lens, whose magnifying power should be limited only by the resolvability of the object, and which at the same time should be free from spherical and chromatic aberrations, in short from all the obstacles over which the poor microscopist finds himself continually stumbling!