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From: mvp@hsv3.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
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Subject: Re: Making Your Own Microscopes
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Date: 14 Feb 91 23:45:24 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 ?

Amazing timing....  I just got the second issue of "Science Probe!", 
and one of the articles is on building your own microscopes.  These
don't look anything like the traditional laboratory scope -- In fact,
they look remarkably like van Leuowenhook's (grotesquely mispelled)
original design.  
-- 
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