"With the lenses of spectacles widespread, and their obvious magnification properties, it was only a matter of time before someone put two together to make the first compound microscope. Indeed, this was probably already happening with telescopes just before this as Dutch Spectacle makers were experimenting with multiple lenses. Since a microscope could be made by just reversing a telescope, this may be where the idea originated. There is a terrific amount of mis-information about who invented the microscope. Fairly respectable references have said Galileo invented it shortly after inventing the telescope. This is not so, as Galileo didn't purchase his first telescope until around 1607. Many people think that Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope. This is also very untrue, as while his microscopes were very simple and crude, he started making them long after very elaborate models were available and they had made many important discoveries. With the lenses of spectacles widespread, and their obvious magnification

Coarse adjustment knob is the large, round knob on the side of the microscope used for focusing the specimen; it may move either the stage or the upper part of the microscope.

Eyepiece is the object you look into, to view the image. It also increases the object by 10x, and had a pointer in you field of view to make it easier to find the object after zooming in even more.

Fine adjustment knob-small, round knob on the side of the microscope used to fine-tune the focus of your specimen after using the coarse adjustment knob.

Rotating nosepiece is what you turn to change the magnification, and is what holds the objectives.

Plasmolysis is the cell shrinking away from the cell wall like what happened in the lab that we did with the elodea leaf. When we added salt the cell shrank away from the cell wall, but when we put regular what back in then the cell returned back to regular size again. Figure one illustrates what it looks like before plasmolysis takes place. The next couple pictures shows what happens to the cell with salt added.

To view these cell under a microscope you might want to use a wet mount. First of all the is how you prepare a wet mount, first you wash your glass side, until clean. Then you place your object on the slide carefully, and making sure you do not touch the slide or it will leave prints and disrupted what you are trying to see. Then after that, you apply a drop off water, and keeping in mind not to use too much. Too much would be having any of the water get pushed off the slide when applying a cover slip. Putting on the cover slip is quite easy, you take the slip by its edges then tilt it to a 45 degree angle then set it down making sure there are no air bubbles to effect what you are about to see. Some scientist use staining methods in place of using the water or they use the staining agent with the water. The staining substance is to have certain object appear easier then they would have without it. Then you carefully set the prepared slide on to the stage and in to the clips. Before viewing, make sure that the stage is all the way to the top and that the microscope power is at its lowest power, scanning. If you were to look in to the microscope and the picture was all blurry then you have to play around with the course adjustment, trying to find the clearest picture, then after finding the best picture you need to play around with the fine adjustment knob. After finding the best picture possible you need to use the knobs that control the left and right motion of the stage. Before turning the microscope to a higher power you need to make sure that the object you want to view is right on the tip of the arrow in the eyepiece. Once you find the object for low power and observe it you do exactly the same thing to the next power, which is high power.

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