The Compound Microscope
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judybagley on October 14, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Eye Piece-Ocular Lens | Magnifies image of specimen 10x. It is the lens you look through. |
| Body | Allows light to travel through. |
| Revolving Nose Piece | Holds and rotates objective lenses. |
| Objective Lenses | Magnifies the specimen. It is the first lens that light passes through. |
| Stage | Where slide is placed. |
| Diaphragm | Regulates the amound of light reaching the objective lens |
| Base | Supports the microscope from below. |
| Mirror/light Source | Provides light to project the image of the specimen. |
| Stage Clips | Holds slide in position |
| Fine Adjustment | Used in high power. It is an adjustment to focus on detail. |
| Arm | Supports the upper parts o the microcope. |
| Coarse Adjusment | Used in low power. It is the first rough adjustment to focus on the image. |
| Galileo Galilei | Father of modern physics and astronomy. He worked out the principles of lenses, and made a much better instrument with a focusing device. |
| Anton van Leeuwenhoek | The father of microscopy. He taught himself new methods for grinding and polishing tiny lenses of great curvature. |
| Robert Hooke | The English father of microscopy. He improved on Leeuwenhoek's design. |
| Charles A. Spencer | An American who gave maginifications up to 1250 diameters with ordinaary light and up to 5000 with blue light. |
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