Microscopes are of three basic types: optical, electron (or ion), and scanning probe. The modern optical or light microscope was developed in the mid-19th century. Optical microscopes use transparent ...

The electron microscope is a type of microscope that uses electrons to create an image of the target. It has much higher magnification or resolving power than a normal light microscope. Although ...

(Nanowerk News) Optical microscopes are widely used to observe phenomena on the order of micrometers (µm). In recent years, it has been found that, used ingeniously, an optical microscope can detect ...

THIS book opens to English readers an entirely new page in microscopical literature. It leads the way in supplying a want which every thorough microscopist has realized for the last twenty years. In a ...

In the late 17th century, a Dutch draper and self-taught scientist named Antonie van Leeuwenhoek earned renown for building some of the best microscopes available at a time when the instrument was ...

Who needs fancy electron microscopes when you’ve got the simple but ingenious hand-held microscope through which microbes were seen for the first time almost 340 years ago. These pictures – of the ...