Microscope

(mif-kro - skop) [fiuipog, small; onoirelv, to view]. An apparatus through which minute objects are rendered visible. It consists of a lens or group of lenses by which a magnified image of the object is produced. M., Binocular, a microscope having divergent oculars, one for each eye, so that the object is seen with both eyes. M., Compound, one that consists of two or more lenses or lens-systems, of which one, the objective, placed near the object, gives an enlarged and inverted real image; the other, the ocular, acting like a simple microscope, gives an enlarged virtual image of the real image. M., Simple, one consisting of one or more lenses or lens-systems acting as a single lens. The rays of light that enter the eye of the observer, after refraction through these lenses, proceed directly from the object itself. 395