Summary:
- A microscope is a tool used to make things that are too small to be seen by the human eye look bigger.
- Microscopy is the study of small objects using microscopes.
- Light microscopes use lenses, typically made of glass or plastic, to focus light either into the eye, a camera, or some other light detector.
- The most powerful light microscopes can make images up to 2,000 times larger.
- Stained glass from the Middle Ages is often hundreds of years old.
- Many of these relics are in need of cleaning and maintenance.