Light microscope

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Picture of a light microscope.
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Picture of a light microscope.

A light microscope works a lot like a refracting telescope except that the object is very close to the objective lens. Put a tiny organism (a "daphnia" or water flea) found in pond water on a glass slide. The clips on the microscope's flat stage hold the slide in place. Now take a look through the microscope eyepiece. A mirror at the bottom of the microscope reflects light rays up to the daphnia through a hole in the stage. Objective lenses magnify the image which is made even larger when we see it through the eyepiece lenses.

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