Microscopes

A microscope is a laboratory instrument scientists use to examine objects that cannot be seen by naked eyes.

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Microscopes
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Microscopes were known before the seventeenth century

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Dutchman Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was one of the first to construct a microscope

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A microscope is used to see small objects that cannot be seen by naked eyes and far objects in the sky as well

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Light microscope is an instrument that facilitated examination of specimens by thinly slicing them, allowing light to pass through

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Modern microscopes can view magnify objects only up to 800x times (800X)

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Examining venations of fly wings require a low-powered microscopes that can magnify up to 80x times its actual size

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Light microscope (right) and stereomicroscope (left)

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Electron microscope was invented in the early 1890s

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Illumination of specimens with blue light under the light microscope lent considerably greater resolution than with any colors of longer wavelengths

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The scanning electron microscope (SEM) was invented in 1950s

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Contact X-ray microscopy and the scanning tunneling microscope, enables scientists to photograph molecules

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