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Q: How is refracting telescope similar to a compound microscope?
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How is a radio telescope similar to a refracting telescope and a reflecting telescope?

They all collect and focus light and other forms of electromagnetic radation.


Name 5 types of microscopes?

five types of microscopes are: A compound light microscope,the stereo microscope,the electron microscope,a simple microscope(similar to a magnifying glass,and a compound microscope.


Who invented the form of microscope most similar to the ones used today?

Galileo is credited with the first compound microscope. Zacharias Janssen invented the microscope that we use today.


What are the different types of microscopes and their purposes?

There are reflective microscopes (similar in design to a telescope), and transmission microscopes where the objective is on the other sample and used for looking at slides. There are phase-contrast microscope, electron microscopes and scanning tunneling microscope.


Is the design of radio telescopes very similar to the design of refracting telescopes?

no, reflecting telescopes.


What are binoculars similar to?

I guess a telescope.


Who was the Dutch scientist who improved the microscope?

The first microscope to be developed was the optical microscope. An early microscope was made in 1590 in Middelburg, Netherlands. Two eyeglass makers are variously given credit: Hans Lippershey (who developed an early telescope) and Zacharias Janssen. Van Leeuwenhoek improved a microscope and first described cells seen in cork tissue. He called them cells as they looked like little rooms, similar to ones that monks lived in.


What characteristics do different microscope have?

There are many microscopes. The difference of microscopes is that many of them use different things to view. Some use a beam of light, and some are similar to a telescope. Some can even see atoms.


What is one advantage of using the dissecting microscope instead of a compound light microscope?

A dissecting microscope has a lower magnification than a compound microscope. A dissecting microscope has a bigger work area so you can use it to magnify and still move around what ever your looking at. A compound microscope would be used to look at cells that you could not see with out intense magnification You would have to use a microscope slide for whatever you wanted to look at. Example: A dissecting microscope would be used to figure out the sex of Fruit flys. While a compound would be used if wanted to see the cells of a the fly's eye


How is the respiratory system and a telescope similar?

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What intrument is the human eye most similar to?

telescope


What type of microscope is most like a magnifying glass?

A simple microscope similar to a magnifying lens.