AmScope BK-WM The World of the Microscope A Practical Introduction with Projects and Activities,multicolor

Usborne Science & Experiments

by Chris Oxlade, Corinne Stockley

Shows how to get the best from various types of microscopes, and suggests projects which reveal the detail of everyday objects

Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Childrens, School, Reference

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Chris Oxlade is the best-selling author of more than 150 non-fiction books, most of them explaining complex scientific ideas and modern technology to young readers in readable text.

Reviews

[Lewis Wilkins · Rating 5 out of 5]

A comprehensive primer on optical microscope use and applications.

This accessible book teaches microscopic:

- Collection
- Preparation: cleaning with solvents, slicing
- Staining: when to use six types and three techniques
- Mounting: wet, semi-permanent, permanent
- Mechanics and optics
- History
- Vocabulary
- Equipment

With applications to:

- Plant cells and structure
- Animal cells: human cheek, insects
- Bacteria
- Algae
- Viruses
- Geology, minerals, crystals
- Micro-fossils
- Water and environment
- Soil substance, life, and oil exploration
- Food substance and safety
- Air: pollen, insects, soot
- Dust
- Medicine
- Archaeology
- Materials science and failure
- Police forensics

Although the book is light on details on:

- creating permanent mounts
- explaining why to include vegetable stock, glycerin, lemon juice, sugar in various jellies
- details on chemical reactions
- image libraries of bacteria, fibers, hairs

…the book offers more than enough procedures and insights for you to start investigating a range of applications and to look up next steps in your microscopic area of interest.

Available within a microscope kit in the Gail Borden public library youth collection and perhaps at another library near you.

[Laura Eggen · Rating 5 out of 5]

A quick, easy read that give a brief, comprehensive overview of the optical microscope. In addition to providing basic information about the optical microscope, this book also gives a brief introduction to some of the other types of microscopes available, and how they are used in different fields of study. It supplies the amateur microscopist with some beginner projects that introduce them to the fascinating world of microscopy.

[Ellie Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

My grandma gave me this book alongside my first microscope several years ago, and it's been such a useful guide through all the different things to do with a microscope! It has tons of hands on experiments and pages on different sciences or types of things you can look at in the microscope, and it's all really fun! It's definitely a great introduction for kids(and older, really) to start using a microscope.

[Alex Williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a kids book but it is jam packed with everything I was dying to know about microscopy. It covers the history and mechanics of the microscope, instructions to collect stuff and prepare it for imaging and explains what you might see. There is even a section on fungi (with a picture of a bunny! No wonder it was shortlisted for the Science Book Prize in 1989)⠀

[Belle Meade School]

502.8

[Lenka Mazurkiewicz]

I found this book ok very useful and educational.

[Fenixbird SandS · Rating 3 out of 5]