Louisa Lane Clarke

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“... books, like Louisa Lane Clarke's The Microscope (1858) and {{w|Mary Ward (scientist)|Mary Ward}}'s A World of Wonders Revealed by the Microscope (1859), were directed to broader audiences in a drive to recruit more new microscopists from the general public.”

“All our farinaceous plants contain abundance of {{w|starch}}, especially wheat, barley, oats, maize, rice, {{w|Arrowroot|arrow-root}}; and the {{w|Granule (cell biology)|granule}}s differ from each other in size and form so decidedly, that they cannot well be mistaken by a careful observer. They are prepared for the microscope, and sold as polariscope objects, because the examination of a starch granule with {{w|polarized light}} shows it with a beautiful black cross, revolving with the polarizer; or, if over a selenite stage, a brilliant play of colours is obtained.”

“{{w|Scandal}}, tittle-tattle, tale-bearing, are the very bindweed of society; as the bindweed destroys the flower, so do they choke every kindly feeling and every noble thought.”