Sentence examples for lens grinder from inspiring English sources
Spinoza was a very skillful lens grinder.
His book Bento's Sketchbook (2011) was inspired by Spinoza, whose day job was as a lens grinder.
He is Dr. Henry Selwyn, who began life as Hersh Seweryn, the son of a Lithuanian lens grinder.
Thereafter, he became a full-time lens grinder for about 50 years, constructing telescopes and lenses for important persons and for the Royal Observatory in Paris.
It seems to me noteworthy too that another of van Aelst's contemporaries was the philosopher and lens grinder Baruch Spinoza (1632-77), who also lived in Amsterdam.
Although Baruch Spinoza is one of the great thinkers of the European philosophical tradition, he was not a professional scholar – he earned his modest living as a lens grinder.
The microbiome first came to light in the mid-1600s, when the Dutch lens-grinder Antonie van Leeuwenhoek scraped the scum off his teeth, placed it under a microscope and discovered that it contained swimming creatures.
The shop was soon auctioned off in bits and pieces — "frames, lenses, fitting tables, grinders" — to help offset the unpaid balance on a $45,000 Small Business Administration loan, the paper reported in January 1981.
Much of the work was done in his machine shop in Los Angeles, with the lens, mirror and window custom-made by an optical grinder.
The lens was homogenised in the sample solution using a tissue grinder before centrifugation at 15,000× g for 15 min. The supernatant was removed and the pellet rehomogenised and repeat centrifuged twice.
