Microscope Documentation

This is a sample of Documentation from Science-info.net The AO Spencer Blue Book a complete treaties on microscopy, the AO Spencer's Ortho Illuminator, Gray's Handbook the covers it as well,

An extenxive collection of Reichert , Zeiss, Leitz and other literature  

Making Thin Sections by Hand

Making Thin Sections by Hand

These links explain how to make thin sections of rocks and soil. Depending on how hard the rock is and the tools you have it make not take to long or i make take a long time. -gc

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/fossil/thnsect.html

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/fossil/thin-sect.html

Richard E. Hill Lunar and Planetary Lab The University of Arizona in Tucson,
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/dino/dino.html

Peter Hobel's work in UV with

Peter Hobel in Germany is doing cutting edge work with a USB web cam, [in German] Pelter cooler for cooling the UV LED .

If one wants to see how good they are comparing their work to that of  Peter Hobel is doing with Amphipleura pellucida is a humbling experience for most of us.  To see Peter's work on the Yahoo microscope group Photographs of Amphipleura  pellucida and his equipment and the tread starting with Message 3116 & Message 3116 on Keith Shaw's Microscope Group Archive.

He is also has discussions in Microscopehobby Message 3250 and Message 3116.

IBM Microscope With 100 Million Times Finer than Best MRI

IBM Research Creates Microscope With 100 Million Times Finer Resolution Than Current MRI

Quoting the the release, "The technique was applied to a sample of tobacco mosaic virus and achieved resolution down to four nanometers. (One nanometer is one billionth of a meter; a tobacco mosaic virus is 18 nanometers across.)"

We may not be able to visually see too far beyond the limits imposed by the wavelength of visible light but computers and thing they drive are opening up a smaller and smaller world that may only be limited by quantum uncertainty in the end. If they break that barrier I have to get a new physics book and lot more.[gc]

In "Machine Vision: a Subset of Systems Engineering" by  Bruce.Batchelor

Bruce  points out that Calcite prisms extend the ability to do polarized light work form 190 nm to 2,500 nm compared to the Polaroid film filters that just barely covering the visible light spectrum. 

From Stevensville to Antarctica

The Herald-Palladium WILLIAM F. AST III,January 18, 2009  Deborah Steinberg & 4 assistants including Miram Gleiber of Stevensville of William and Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science are in Antarctica for a 6 week tour aboard the Laurence M. Gould built for year round duty in Arctic waters. The will be pulling nets and collection samples of krill and plankton to try to add to the the record to quantify for the change in the Antarctic the change in those creatures in those waters in the last 50 years that records have been kept.

With all the legislation new and contunuing funds, added research and regulation over climate  change no matter your point of view the current  mind set  is going to make a great deal of money available to do a lot of these studies and projects some good some bad. Lets all try to make the good the good out number the bad and not just use it as an opportunity to burn more tax money.-gc