Early microscopes offered sharp vision : Nature News - 0 views
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Inept modern reconstructions have given seventeenth-century instruments a bad name, says Ford. In contrast to the hazy images shown in some museums and television documentaries, the right lighting and focusing can produce micrographs of startling clarity using original microscopes or modern replicas ( see slideshow ).
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A flea, as seen through an eighteenth-century microscope used poorly (left) and correctly (right).