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Microscope Notes

The document provides an overview of microscopes, detailing their three major parts: illuminating, mechanical, and magnifying components, along with their functions. It also includes historical context, mentioning key figures such as Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek and Robert Hooke, and the development of various types of microscopes over time. The document emphasizes the importance of microscopes in visualizing small organisms and objects that are not visible to the naked eye.

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Microscope Notes

The document provides an overview of microscopes, detailing their three major parts: illuminating, mechanical, and magnifying components, along with their functions. It also includes historical context, mentioning key figures such as Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek and Robert Hooke, and the development of various types of microscopes over time. The document emphasizes the importance of microscopes in visualizing small organisms and objects that are not visible to the naked eye.

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MICROSCOPE

Microscope
3 Major Parts
(2) Illuminating
Parts & Function ➢ supply & regulate light towards the specimen
➢ provide the light
➔ Mirror - reflects light from external light
Source
➔ Iris Diaphragm - controls the amount of
light that reaches the specimen
- rotating that controls the passage of light
through the stage
- “5” highest “1” lowest
➔ Stage Condenser - collects & focuses the
light from the mirror to the specimen
- gives a sharper image
Microscope
3 Major Parts
Microscope (3) Mechanical
➢ a tool used to see organisms or objects that ➢are used for support & adjusting the different
are too small for our naked eye parts of the microscope
➢EX: Plants cells, animal cells, microorganisms ➔ Draw Tube - holds the ocular

Microscope ➔ Body Tube - holds the eyepiece to the


Compound Microscope nosepiece, to objective lens
➢an optical microscope that ises visible light to ➔ Revolving Nosepiece/Turret - the changing
of objectives
Form an image.
- holds the objectives
➢uses glass lenses to magnify & resolve image
➔ Adjusting Knobs
Microscope
a.​ Coarse Adjustment Knob - moves the
3 Major Parts
body tube & lower power lenses, close
(1) Magnifying
or farther away from the stage
➢make the specimen look bigger
- focus on scanning
➢ enlarge
b.​ Fine Adjustment Knob - focus the image
➢ adjust & support the parts
further
➔ Eyepiece/Ocular Lens - is used to see the
- used for focus on oil
the objects
- moves the body tube for focussing the
- where you view/look the magnified image high power lens
- 10x or 15x ➔ Arm - support the body tube & is held
➔ Objective Lenses - the major lenses - connects to the base of the microscope
- 3 or 4 objective lens ➔ Base - supports the entire microscope
- 10X, 40X, 100X ➔ Stage - where slide is placed
- below the nosepiece ➔ Stage Clips - secure/holds the slides
a.​ Lower Power Objective (10x) - Lowest ➔ Inclination Joint - tilting of the microscope
b.​ High Power Objective (40x) - Higher ➔ Pillar - supports the other parts
c.​ Oil Immersion Objective - Highest
MICROSCOPE
Transmission Electron Microscope 1931

History
Nimrud Lens (710 BCE)
➢found in the city of Nimrud
1595 Scanning Electron Microscope 1942
➢ The first compound microscope
➢ Zacharias Janssen (son)
➢ Hans Janssen (father)

Confocal Microscope 1978

Scanning Tunneling Microscope 1981

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek


➢cloth merchant
➢who made the first microscope that can
Visualize an individual cell
➢ made over 500 prototypes to get the final
version of his microscope which could
visualize 200x magnification
➢ led to the discovery of bacteria, protists,
sperm cells etc
➢ animalcules
Robert Hooke 1635
➢added the features to the microscope (stage &
Illuminator, focus controls)
Light Microscope 1595

Phase Contrast Microscope 1930


MICROSCOPE
Parts

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