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!
A meteorite leaves behind globules of colour that do not fall within the range of anything known in the visible spectrum in a shunned place later referred to as the "e;blasted heath"e;.