Friday, August 3, 2007

Light Microscopes




The microscopes first used by Renaissance scientists, as well as the microscopes you are likely to use in the laboratory, are all light microscopes (LMs). Visible light is passed through the specimen and then throught glass lenses. the lenses refract (bend) the light in such a way that the image of the specimen is magnified as it is projected into the eye, ont photographic film or a digital sensor, or onto a video screen.

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