here are two kinds. The simplemicroscope consists of one convex lens so placed that thelight from an object at less than the focal length appearsto come from a much larger object (Fig. 79). The com-pound microscope consists of two or more lenses so arranged Light. 103 that each lens toward the eye… … appears to be the size of XY. From this we can see theadvantage of the compound microscope over the simple.For if the objective magnifies 10 times and the eyepiece10 times we have a magnifying power of 100 times.Then if there are several lenses in the objective and theirfocal lengths are small, the…
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