Microscopes

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Who made his discovery by using a simple microscope to look at tiny drops of water magnified 266 times to see tiny organisms?

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Anton van Leeuwenhoek

Front

This inventor made the compound microscope and was the first to view cells in objects like cork.

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Robert Hooke

Front

A microscope with only 1 lens. For example, jewelry eyepieces, pocket magnifiers, and reading glasses.

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Simple Microscope

Front

A microscope with two or more lenses.

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compound microscope

Front

When you look down a microscope, the circle that you see is called '______'

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field of view

Front

The part you look through - also has a 10X lens in it.

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eyepiece (ocular lens)

Front

A hollow tube that holds the eyepiece lens and /or mirrors - reflects light up to the viewer's eye.

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body tube

Front

These are attached to the nosepiece and vary in size. The shortest lens is the least powerful and the longest lens is the most powerful. Often times people who make microscopes put different colored bands to identify the different powers.

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objective lens

Front

The first lens you use when doing proper microscope work 4X

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low power objective lens

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The second lens you use when doing proper microscope work 10X

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medium power objective lens