Re: What kind of compound microscope a beginner should buy and how to start?

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 00:59:56 GMT, "GTO" <gregor_o@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>What kind of compound microscope a beginner should buy and how to start?
>
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>What would be the right approach to start?
>1) I would have to learn a little something BEFORE I start spending a
>couple of hundred dollars on equipment. I would buy Professor Nachtigall's
>great book (Werner Nachtigall, Exploring with the Microscope, Sterling
>Publishing Co., New York (1996)). (Today, I would have to get a used paper
>copy!) I would read most of it and then.well I would no longer be a true
>beginner. I would have learned (or 'learnt' for our friends form Great
>Britain!) that one should not use a microscope as a nutcracker. I would know
>how they work and why they work. I would have learned something about
>reasonably priced microscopes that offer a decent quality. But since the
>book is sufficiently outdated, it actually might recommend me the wrong
>scope. (Remember, a low-cost scope is no longer just a low-cost scope but
>often a mechanical nightmare!)
<snip>
>Just my two cents.
>
>Gregor
>
Amazon {& others} price for a used copy are a bit ridiculous.
Anchor Optical { http://www.anchoroptics.com/index.cfm? } has (had?) a
few copies left for $9.95 US.
My copy arrived today & it's a hardcover too! :-)

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