Copyright and publishing information, introductory photographs and links, credits and acknowledgements.
Leeuwenhoek, Brown, experimental microscopes (like the x-ray microscope) and modern scanning instruments.
Stelluti and Leeuwenhoek, Robert Hooke, the discovery of microbes and the birth of the science of microscopy
Robert Brown, Brownian Movement and Einstein, the how the early microscopes revealed their specimens
How to install the software and set up your new digital microscope, with experimental hints and tips
Calibrating the digital microscope to check its magnification, and observing coins, rulers, records and coins
Repeat some historic experiments, look at plants - and become a forensic scientist by finding the fake document
Here's a selection of ways to practice your forensic skills. Spot the fake, and see whether your printer does what they claim
Give the microscope a day out. Study strange forms of life in rock pools and living cells in strands of seaweed
A pond is full of fascinating organisms, and also potentially dangerous. Take care as you collect insects and plants
Use a digital microscope in springtime to watch frogs-spawn develop, and make a time-lapse movie of the embryo
Flies, fleas, lice and nits . . . all pretty yucky in daily life, but they are objects of fascination under the microscope
Turn the microscope on yourself to look at your eyes, skin and hairs, and study professional slides of human tissues
Set up the digital microscope to speed up the growth of plants and study details of flowers and sexual organs
Find out how to play with your microscope software and produce funny or weird pictures, and hear strange sounds
Hints band tips on maintenance and servicing, and a page of microscope books to find in the local library
More books to find, and a list of 40 of the very best web sites anywhere in the Western Arm of the Galaxy
PUBLISHING HISTORY
First edition published for Nesta as a contribution to Science Year May 2002. Second (corrected) release published on the web by Planet Science, October 2002. Welsh translation by Huw Roberts, ISBN 0-9543595-1-8, published November 2002. First retail edition, ISBN 0-9543595-0-X, now available.
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