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THE MICROSCOPE Mo. 1 - L4a What are the Types of Microscopes?
Lesson 4

Let’s Begin
In this topic, you will learn the following
lesson:
The Development of Microscopes
Mo. 1 - L4a What are the Types of Microscopes?
The invention of microscopes enabled people to see
details of living things that could not be seen with the
Mo4-L4a What are the Types of Microscope? unaided eye.

KEY CONCEPT: One of the first microscopes, invented by Anton van
Leeuwenhoek in the late 1600s, could magnify an
1. How did microscopes change our ideas about living image about 270 times its original size.
things?
2. What are the types of microscopes, and how do they
compare?

Vocabulary A-Z

Let us learn some vocabulary

Light Microscope

a microscope that uses
light and lenses to enlarge
an image of an object. In the early 1700s Robert Hooke used a microscope
to observe and name cells for the first time.

Compound Microscope

a light microscope that uses
more than one lens to magnify
an object.

Electron Microscope Key Concept
What are the Types of Microscopes?
a microscope that uses a How did Microscopes change our ideas about
magnetic field to focus a living things?
beam of electrons through
an object or onto an object’s
surface.

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