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Generally, when one thinks about microscopes, electron or optical microscopes will come to mind. Such microscopes produce a magnified image of an object by directing electromagnetic radiation, such as ...

CORNING, NY — To closely inspect the evolution of the microscope, the Corning Museum of Glass is highlighting the lens-making behind the optical tool. Revealing the Invisible includes one of the few ...

THE views expressed in the previous notice of this work which appeared in NATURE (February 6, 1908) would appear to have been amply borne out in the welcome accorded to it by the public, since a ...

IT is extremely difficult to give any general theory of the formation of the image in the microscope, inasmuch as the action differs with every different object and with the arrangement of the ...

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