The Ultimate Guide to Your Microscope

Good quality book and very informative, and a really good price

Good book with plenty of interesting projects for young kids. Covers all the basic slide prep techniques in good detail and has many practical experiments. I like this book as the pictures shown throughout are real images from an optical microscope and therefore closely resemble the images likely to be acquired on my child's microscope. Rather than setting a higher expectation from books that mainly present imagines from electron microscopes.

An excellent guide to stimulate children young and old. Simple techniques to prepare specimens for microsocopy

Good well written guide for beginners

I purchased this for my 6 yr old grandson to accompany his new microscope that he will be receiving this Christmas . It looks to be very well written and pitched just right for children of that age and upwards. Can't wait to give it to him!

This is a very nice book and contains a great deal of practical information and to this extent is very good. The section on slide production is very clear. However, its tone seems to be addressed to a very young child which I think is offputting to a teenager and older and I think its range of objects looked at seems a bit limited at first reading. In fact probably most of the areas are covered but under headings which are chatty and amusing but sometimes seem to be about different things! There is very little on pond life which is a big area for the amateur microscopist which I found a bit surprising. Like the curates egg good in parts!

This is an excellent book for anyone, old or young, who has acquired access to a microscope for the first time, and wants to explore the magic world which is mostly out-of-sight. It takes you through step-by-step, and makes the process fun!

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Good book with lots of experiments. Good for beginners.

Buen producto

The first section of the book describes a basic microscope in generic terms and explains how to use it, take care of it and prepare slides. This is essential for first time users so that they can get an idea of what it can do. The rest of the book describes many different projects on how to view various objects using appropriate tecniques. In this way the student can get to know how to use the microscope proficiently and to realise its potential and range of application. It is well illustrated with colour photographs of what they should see.

Livro muito bem projetado, excelentes ilustrações, e métodos práticos para aplicar em experiências com microscópio! Compre um microscópio, mesmo antigo ou usado e inicie!

Overall, this book is the best introduction to the microscope for teens or pre-teens I have seen. It covers everything from the parts of a microscope and a plain-language explanation of the optics to preparing slides and making a simple microtome to prepare specimens. There is a whole series of really good simple microscope experiments and projects with easy step-by-step instructions. Each experiment/project uses a different plant, animal or mineral sample and has three steps: `You Will Need' - a short list of items needed for the experiment `What To Do' - a simple set of step-by-step instructions to prepare a specimen `What Did You See' - a good explanation of what was (or should have been) seen along with photographs The organization of the chapters makes me think this may originally have been written with the idea of classroom use and it could be used as a teaching guide as well. The language is simple and clear. I don't know if it's truly the "Ultimate Guide" but it really is the best I have seen so far.