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This is a brief history of the development of microscopy, from the use of beads and water droplets in ancient Greece, through the simple magnifying glass, to the modern compound microscope. The technology and optical theory are developed in a straightforward manner, and this leads to a description and explanation of the most modern technologies in electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and the new scanning probe microscopies. A series of very interesting applications of the various microscopic techniques are described. The most recent pioneering techniques in near field and confocal optical microscope technologies are described and evaluated for their future importance.
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SERIES IN POPULAR SCIENCE Editor-in-Chief: Richard J. Weiss
Published Vol. 1 A Brief History of Light and Those That Lit the Way by R. J. Weiss Vol. 2 The Discovery of Anti-matter: The Autobiography of Carl David Anderson, the Youngest Man to Win the Nobel Prize by C. D. Anderson Vol. 3 Science of Percussion Instruments by T. D. Rossing Vol. 4 Fakebusters II: Scientific Detection of Fakery in Art and Philately edited by R. J. Weiss and D. Chartier Vol. 5 Under the Microscope: A Brief History of Microscopy by W. J. Croft
William J Croft (Harvard University, USA)
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