A World On A Different Point Of View

As an eight year old girl having very supportive parents, my mom and dad always encouraged whatever ambitions I had in mind and convinced me to become a scientist after I requested for a microscope. It was that Christmas that I received my first microscope. I could not take my hands off it nor my eyes for that matter as I was mesmerized of the invisible worlds that I now saw and with the dream of receiving a Nobel Peace Prize Award for a scientific discovery of new life forms, disease cures or anything that can benefit the human population.

I looked at everything I could get my hands on under that little microscope. Somewhat different, that winter produced various snowflakes. Ones that I've never seen before and I fell in love with its splendor. Each snowflake was a beauty in its own intricate artwork, like a marvelous present handed from above.

The microscope's mixture of glass lenses and light allows small invisible things to appear large to the naked eye.The writings of Seneca, Pliny the Elder, and Roman philosophers in the first century A. D. mention magnifiers, burning glasses (because holding them in the sun over a piece of parchment or cloth would set it on fire), and magnifying glasses.These pieces of magnifying glasses were called lenses because they were shaped like the seed of a lentil.

It only used a hollow cylindrical object with a lens on one end that can magnify ten times the object's appearance and on the other end is a plate for the specimen. These were the first models of a microscope. Because they were so fond of watching fleas and other insects in it, they also termed the lenses as flea glasses.

The discovery of objects seemingly viewed as bigger was done by experimenting on a variety of lenses in a pipe by Zaccharias Janssen and his son Hans in 1590. In the years that succeeded, the device continues to upgrade as more scientists pitch in what they've learned and applied.In 1609, Galileo made his contribution by improving the principles of the lenses with a focusing device. However, the scientist regarded as the founder of microscopy is Anton Van Leeuwenhoek of Holland. It started when he worked at a dry goods store as a trainee and a magnifying glass was what he used to tally the threads in the fabric. He was able to make lenses that curved up to 270 diameters of amplification after learning how to sharpen and refine them. He also started making microscopes that later famed him for his first biological breakthroughs. Microbiological discoveries such as bacteria, yeast plants, organisms in water and blood circulation in the capillaries is accredited to him. It must have been a breathtaking moment. In the following years that came, there were insignificant improvements. However, by the 19th century, an American scientist by the name of Charles A. Spencer was able to manufacture the best lenses that can amplify the object's appearance of up to 1250 diameters if used with natural light and 5000 diameters if used with blue light.

There are all sizes and shapes of microscopes - one to suit and encourage your little one to explore different worlds, and those for industrial, scientific and medical use. Without a doubt and despite the size, it will still be intriguing to look through the lens.

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