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Microscopy Brings New Worlds Into Focus

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MICHAEL D. WHEELER, [email protected]

Though the father-son duo of Hans and Zacharias Janssen is widely credited with developing the first microscope in the late 16th century, it was the English scholar Robert Hooke who inspired widespread public interest in the new science of microscopy. His seminal work, “Micrographia,” published in 1665, included never-before-seen illustrations of magnified insects and plants, just as he saw them from his microscope. “By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small as to escape our inquiry; hence, there is a new visable world discovered to the understanding,”...Read full article

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    Published: May 2016
    Glossary
    microscope
    An instrument consisting essentially of a tube 160 mm long, with an objective lens at the distant end and an eyepiece at the near end. The objective forms a real aerial image of the object in the focal plane of the eyepiece where it is observed by the eye. The overall magnifying power is equal to the linear magnification of the objective multiplied by the magnifying power of the eyepiece. The eyepiece can be replaced by a film to photograph the primary image, or a positive or negative relay...
    vision
    The processes in which luminous energy incident on the eye is perceived and evaluated.
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