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LL/35181
Donné & Foucault
1855
Fig.40 - thin disc of cow's milk. The 120th of an inch in diameter, magnified 400 times in its linear and 160000 times in its superficial dimensions.

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The Museum of Science and Art (London: Walton and Maberly, 1855), Volume 6, edited by Dionysius Lardner, p.97. The plate is discussed on p.106.
 
87. In fig. 40, p. 97, we have given the appearance presented by a thin disc, the 120th of an inch in diameter, of common cow's milk magnified 400 times in its linear, and therefore 160000 times in its superficial dimensions, engraved from a daguerreotype by MM. Donne and Foucault.
 
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