10 Facts About Optical microscope

Optical microscope, referred to as a light microscope, is a type of microscope that commonly uses visible light and a system of lenses to generate magnified images of small objects.

Simple Optical microscope uses a lens or set of lenses to enlarge an object through angular magnification alone, giving the viewer an erect enlarged virtual image.

Compound Optical microscope uses a lens close to the object being viewed to collect light which focuses a real image of the object inside the Optical microscope .

Digital Optical microscope is a Optical microscope equipped with a digital camera allowing observation of a sample via a computer.

Actual inventor of the compound Optical microscope is unknown although many claims have been made over the years.

Johannes' testimony pushes the invention date so far back that Zacharias would have been a child at the time, leading to speculation that, for Johannes' claim to be true, the compound Optical microscope would have to have been invented by Johannes' grandfather, Hans Martens.

Actual power or magnification of a compound optical microscope is the product of the powers of the eyepiece and the objective lens.

Optical microscope microscopy is used extensively in microelectronics, nanophysics, biotechnology, pharmaceutic research, mineralogy and microbiology.

Optical microscope microscopy is used for medical diagnosis, the field being termed histopathology when dealing with tissues, or in smear tests on free cells or tissue fragments.

The resolving power of a Optical microscope is taken as the ability to distinguish between two closely spaced Airy disks .