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microscope
microscope information
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Science
7th Grade
11/28/2012

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what is the microscope for?
Definition
for seeing small things 
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how did the 16th century microscope look like?
Definition
single conves lens 
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what are the earliest pioneers of the microscope?
Definition

england - digges 

holland - hans and zcharias janssen 

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who made the mircoscope and used the microscope?
Definition
antony van leeuwenhoek
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what was the first microscope like and what was the magnification power?
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polished ball w/ mag of 270x in one len
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how many microscope did leeuwenhoek made during when he was alive?
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400 microscope
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why was a compound microscope made?
Definition
it is a type of microscope incorporates more than one lens so that the image magnified by one lens can be further magnified by another 
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how does the compound microscope is and how does it work?
Definition
it has more than one lens that can look further magnified
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what is objective lens?
Definition
the closest to object being viewed in the microscope
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what is a eyepiece lens?
Definition
to see things by eye
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how did robert hooke used the microscope in his work?
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hooke discovered the fact that living things are composed of cells 
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how did louis pasteur of france use a compund microscope?
Definition
pasteur looked at yeast fungus 
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what organism did karl j. ebert of germany use his microscope to discover?
Definition
eberthella thyphosa
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what did robert koch discover?
Definition
tuberculosis and cholera 
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in the 19th century which three men improved the microscope?
Definition

carl zeiss - manufacturing of microscopes

ernst abbe - study of optical principles 

otto schott - research on optical glass

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