Magnifying glasses

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058633
- info:lc/authorities/sh85058633
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85058633#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Glasses, Hand
- Glasses, Magnifying
- Hand glasses
- Hand lenses
- Loupes
- Magnifiers (Optics)
- Microscopes, Simple
- Pocket lenses
- Simple microscopes
Broader Terms
- Lenses
Earlier Established Forms
- Hand lenses
Sources
- found: Rainis, K.G. Exploring with a magnifying glass, 1991 (magnifying glass, hand lens, pocket lens)
- found: McGraw-Hill dict. sci. tech. (Magnifying glass--any device that uses a simple lens which enlarges the object being viewed) under Hand lens (see Simple microscope) under Simple microscope (also known as hand lens, magnifier, magnifying glass)
- found: Random House (magnifying glass) under Hand lens (also called Hand glass)
- notfound: INSPEC;INIS:Thes.;NASA;Engr. index;Chambers sci. tech. dict.
LC Classification
- QC373.M33
Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 1991-10-29: revised

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