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Magnification
How much
bigger
something appears compared to its actual
size
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Hooke's
microscope had a magnification of about x30
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A person magnified
30
times would be roughly the size of the Statue of
Liberty
in New York
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Hooke's
microscope was not very powerful because the
glass
lenses were of poor quality
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Resolution
The smallest distance between
two
points that can still be seen as
two
points
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Van
Leeuwenhoek's best microscopes had a resolution of
0.0014
mm
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Hooke's microscope had a resolution of about
0.002
mm
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Today's best light microscopes magnify up to
x1500
with resolutions down to about
0.0001
mm
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