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  2. Cell theory - Wikipedia

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    The cell was first discovered by Robert Hooke in 1665, which can be found to be described in his book Micrographia. In this book, he gave 60 observations in detail of various objects under a coarse, compound microscope. One observation was from very thin slices of bottle cork. Hooke discovered a multitude of tiny pores that he named "cells".

  3. Mirror support cell - Wikipedia

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    One notable example of the structure needed for such telescopes is the dual cell for the M1 mirrors of the 8.4 meter Large Binocular Telescope at Mount Graham International Observatory. This is a multiple beam and truss system which in turn supports a temperature maintenance and air flow system, six position actuators and the 160 pneumatic ...

  4. Catoptrics - Wikipedia

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    Catoptrics (from Ancient Greek: κατοπτρικός katoptrikós, "specular", [1] from Ancient Greek: κάτοπτρον katoptron "mirror" [2]) deals with the phenomena of reflected light and image-forming optical systems using mirrors. A catoptric system is also called a catopter (catoptre).

  5. Catadioptric system - Wikipedia

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    Léon Foucault developed a catadioptric microscope in 1859 to counteract aberrations of using a lens to image objects at high power. [2] In 1876 a French engineer, A. Mangin, invented what has come to be called the Mangin mirror, a concave glass reflector with the silver surface on the rear side of the glass. The two surfaces of the reflector ...

  6. Microscopy - Wikipedia

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    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723). The field of microscopy (optical microscopy) dates back to at least the 17th-century.Earlier microscopes, single lens magnifying glasses with limited magnification, date at least as far back as the wide spread use of lenses in eyeglasses in the 13th century [2] but more advanced compound microscopes first appeared in Europe around 1620 [3] [4] The ...

  7. Objective (optics) - Wikipedia

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    Two Leica oil immersion microscope objective lenses; left 100×, right 40×. The objective lens of a microscope is the one at the bottom near the sample. At its simplest, it is a very high-powered magnifying glass, with very short focal length. This is brought very close to the specimen being examined so that the light from the specimen comes ...

  8. Mirror cell - Wikipedia

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    Mirror cell may refer to: Mirror neuron, a specialized brain neuron; Mirror support cell, a component in reflecting telescopes; Mirror life organisms, a hypothetical form of life based on mirror-image molecular building blocks

  9. Monoclinic crystal system - Wikipedia

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    ditto with screw axes as well as axes, parallel, in between; in this case an additional translation vector is one half of a translation vector in the base plane plus one half of a perpendicular vector between the base planes. The four monoclinic hemihedral space groups include those with pure reflection at the base of the prism and halfway