MR. BECK has in this little book collected and set out in elementary form a considerable amount of information useful to the microscopist. The optics of the instrument are described in a simple manner ...

If a microscope is defined as an instrument that enables the visualization of objects or structures that are usually invisible to the naked eye, then microscopes appeared at the end of the sixteenth ...

Small modifications to an ordinary optical microscope have helped turn it into a powerful instrument that can be used for studying complex cellular biology in real time at the nanoscale level. And ...