The use of instrumentation and techniques for visualizing material and details that cannot be seen by the unaided eye. It is usually done by enlarging images, transmitted by light or electron beams, with optical or magnetic lenses that magnify the entire image field. With scanning microscopy, images are generated by collecting output from the specimen in a point-by-point fashion, on a magnified scale, as it is scanned by a narrow beam of light or electrons, a laser, a conductive probe, or a topographical probe.
    

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Left, a woman personifying science instructing her children in how to use a microscope; a woman personifying truth reveals the scene to Father Time. Mezzotint after T.S. Duché, 1787.

Browning's spectroscopes : spectrum apparatus for the microscope ... / John Browning.

Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses. With observations and inquiries thereupon / By R. Hooke.

Martin Frobenius Ledermüllers ... [Vol. I.] Mikroskopische Gemüths- und Augen-Ergötzung: bestehend in ein hundert nach der Natur gezeichneten und mit farben erleuchteten Kupfertafeln, sammt deren Erklärung. [Vol. II] Nachlesse, etc. I[-V] Sammlung.--Abgenöthigte Vertheidigung; als ein Anhang seiner Mikroskopischen Gemüths- und Augen-Ergötzung: wider einige von dem ... Verfasser des Neuesten aus dem Reiche der Pflanzen [i.e. W.F. von Gleichen] ... geäuserte Zweifel und Vorwürfe. Nebst einer Beylage ... A.W. Winterschmidts, welche die Abbildung einer ... Stubenfliege, enthält / [Martin Frobenius Ledermüller].

Failure of contact inhibition.

The cultivation of living tissue. Part 3.

Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.147 Medical Research, part 1

Klinische Mikroskopie : Atlas und Leitfaden / von A. Kowarski.

M0010873: Gravel in urine, from Hooke: <i>Micrographia</i>, 1665

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Failure of contact inhibition.

The cultivation of living tissue. Part 3.

Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.147 Medical Research, part 1

Klinische Mikroskopie : Atlas und Leitfaden / von A. Kowarski.

M0010873: Gravel in urine, from Hooke: Micrographia, 1665