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What are some facts about the olden day microscope?
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24 Dec '12 12:31 pm
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They were big and magnifying power was poor
You can see more then you could with the naked eye
Answered by anantharaman, 24 Dec '12 02:25 pm
You can see more then you could with the naked eye
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The first microscope was developed in England during the final years of the 16th century.It is likely that the microscope was a result of alterations made to the telescope. It is believed that the microscope was discovered by accidentally inverting a telescope, as indicated by the account that one of the first microscopes was six feet long and had a one inch barrel with a lens at either end (Cohen, 1).The earliest simple microscope was merely a tube with a plate for the object at one end and a lens at the other end that gave a magnification less than ten times the actual size.It had just one lens, and although it had an unappealing look, it was capable of extremely fine work like observing bacteria and single-celled animals.A couple of years later in 1597, Zaccharias Jansseen and his son, Han Jansseen, while experimenting with several lenses in a tube, discovered that a combination of two lenses in a particular fashion. One lens was at the eyepiece of the microscope (ocular), and the
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Answered by points, 24 Dec '12 12:41 pm
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