A great variety of optical instruments has been developed for use in biology. The microscope
and its many special types are part of them. In this article, a survey is given of the history …

Progress in Microscopy details the advancement in various areas of microscopy. The title
covers the phenomena, techniques, measurements, and equations. The text first details the …

The optical microscope has been a standard tool in life science as well as material science
for more than one and a half centuries now. To use this tool economically and effectively, it …

The basic construction and imaging properties of the optical microscope, one of the most
important optical instruments, are described. But the restrictive meaning of a microscope as …

The volumes in this series cover the progress and innovation in optical and electron
microscopy at a fundamental level. It is aimed at microscopists and researchers not only …

In this chapter basic facts of geometrical optics and the physical properties of light are used
to explain the construction and function of light microscopes. We focus on the physical …

The past decade has seen huge advances in the application of microscopy in all areas of
science. This welcome development in microscopy has been paralleled by an expansion of …

A three-decker by a single author on optical microscopy is quite an event in these days of
scrappy, disconnected, multi-author camera-readybooks'. So far we have only Volume 1 …

Light microscopy (X= 400-700 nm) was invented essentially in its present form by 1830 of
the preceding millennium. Dolland and Nicol had, by then, invented the achromatic lens and …

Since the word microscopy was coined in 1656, the evolution of the instrument has had a
long and convoluted history. Plagued with problems of chromatic aberration, spherical …