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From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
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Subject: Re: Making Your Own Microscopes
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Date: 14 Feb 91 20:52:46 GMT
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In article <1991Feb14.051740.14508@ms.uky.edu> ghot@s.ms.uky.edu (Allan Adler) writes:
>I am reading books on how to make your own telescope. It occurs to me that I 
>haven't seen  books on how to make your own microscope. Are there any and are
>there groups of amateurs devoted to this activity ?

A new magazine called Science PROBE! (yeah, yeah,...the publisher thought it looked
good) aimed at amateur science enthusiasts has an article on how to make
van Leeuwenhoek-type microscope.  Glass, liquid, glass-liquid lens systems. 

Looks like fun, actually.

As to making more sophisticated microscopes, you could probably develop a 19th-
century-Zeiss type microscope from that start pretty easily.  That would be
about the same scale of difficulty as making a small refractor, but smaller.

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