Optical Microscope

Turn a hand-inked school microscope to learn its parts, focus with the coarse and fine knobs, and look at onion skin cells at 40×, 100× and 400×. See inside to follow the light path and the gears that move the stage.

Key conceptsoptical microscope · using a microscope · objective lens · eyepiece · total magnification · coarse and fine focus · onion skin cells · inverted image

• Cells & Energy
• Optics