Of all senses that we have the sense of sight is the most important. From the moment you came out in your mother’s womb to the very first time you see the face of your parents, our eyes are acting like a video camera that sends several of signals to our brain for processing. Just take a moment and observe the things around you, would be believe that what you are actually seeing are the beams of light bouncing off the object and into your eyes? You may find it hard to believe, but it’s true. Our human eye is our only organ of vision that detects light. The simplest eyes can do nothing but detect the dark and light color of surroundings, while the more complex eyes can do more than that, it can even differentiate the shapes and colors of things around it. The discovery of microscope is another pursuit of man to see things beyond the capabilities of our eyes, a remarkable device that enables the human eye by means of a lens or combination of lenses to observe enlarged images of tiny objects. It’s like seeing the world in different perspective.
Majority of microscopes are what we call and what is known as light microscopes since they rely entirely on light to observe the magnified image of an object. It’s probably the most well known research tool in biology and other field of science. And within this category are two main types of light microscopes, the compound or high power microscopes and the stereo microscopes or what known as the low power microscopes. These two main categories have its specific capabilities and employs different magnification and illumination level.
A compound microscope for instance is the most common type of microscopes, used basically for research and also referred to as biological microscope. It is called the high power microscope mainly because it’s magnification power can range up to 1000 times and some can even go up to 1500 times to 2000 times. While on the other hand, the stereo or dissecting microscope has a magnification power that range from 10 times to 80 times which is used for examining large specimens such as rocks and fossils, coins, stamps, hair follicles, plant and flower parts and other interesting objects.
Other types of microscope that we have today are the upgraded version of these two main types. These microscopes are usually comes with advanced technology and often times very expensive which is made specifically for medical and research purposes. So browse all those informative pages that we have and learn all types of microscopes and other related topics.