[sac-forum] Re: Powers of Ten

Amazing stuff. That's some microscope, even if it couldn't split the
proton into quarks. I especially liked the "Pioneers in Optics" pages:

http://microscopy.fsu.edu/optics/timeline/people/index.html

I always wondered who Amici of un-inverting Amici prism fame was named
for:

"Giovanni Battista Amici (1786-1863) - Giovanni Amici was an Italian
microscopist, astronomer, optical instrument designer, and botanist, who
is best known as the achromatic lens inventor, also designed reflecting
telescopes and introduced a lens for the inspection of an objective's
rear focal plane, termed the Amici-Bertrand lens. In 1850, he also
invented the water immersion lens."

Jack Jones
Saguaro Astronomy Club
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Messier Marathon Co-coordinator
Phoenix AZ
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> This is interesting… After hours of mind numbing web surfing, I
actually found something worth sharing, I think.  If you have a dial up
connection you may need to give the applet some time to download.
>
http://microscopy.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.ht
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