the curved glass looked like a lentil
The low power objective lens on a microscope is also known as the scanning lens.
What was the name of the first microscope?
AnswerOcular Lens is another name for the eyepiece of a compound microscope.
the name
Ocular
eyepiece
The word "lens" comes from the Latin word "lentil," which is a legume that has a similar shape to a double-convex lens. This resemblance led to the term "lens" being used to describe the optic device.
A lower power lens tells its name in the name. It is a lens in a microscope that has the lowest power, or only magnifies the object you are looking at a little.
The first microscope was called the "single lens microscope" and was invented by Zacharias Janssen in the late 16th century.
It's called an "OCULAR" according to a microscope supplier site.
Ocular lens. Well if it's on the microscope. Lmfao.
The upper lens in a microscope is called the eyepiece or ocular lens. It is the lens through which the viewer looks to observe the magnified specimen on the microscope slide.