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1 - The Fresh Water Life
This article introduces you to the observation of the life forms which
are living in the fresh water environments like puddles and ponds.
Protozoa are living beings so strange that you will feel to be landed in
an alien planet. It will describe also some multicellular forms of life
which inhabit the same places. |
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2 - Bugs (or: Little Terrestrial Animals)
This guide deals mainly with insects and other land arthropods.
According to the scientists, in the world there would be dozens of
millions of species of arthropods and only a little more than a million
of which have been classified. You will have a lot of time to spend in
looking for and observing them. |
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3 - Lower Plants
Mosses, Liverworts, Ferns, Mushrooms, Molds, Lichens are quite enough primitive
plants, still bound to the water for their reproduction. You can find
them in shady and damp habitats. Do not let their humble look deceive
you, in fact their shapes and biological solutions are very
interesting. |
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4 - Seed Plants
What is more beautiful than a meadow in spring? For a keen of microscopy
it is a true marvel fair and it is completely free. In a meadow, in
a wood and in many other environments, you can find thousands of species
and you can observe their flowers, ovaries, fruits, seeds, leaves,
stems, meristems and roots. You can also obtain thin sections of them
and observe them at high magnification. |
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5 - Minerals and Crystals
In spite of the little amount of systems of crystallization, the variety
of shapes that the crystals can get is astounding. Especially if you
observe them through a microscope, the crystals will display you their
wonderful architectures. A lot of Internet links will supply you many
other interesting information. |
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6 - Facilities for Explorations
The search for samples to observe and the preparation of them is often
made easier by special tools and facilities. Here, we will show you how
to observe bugs with a telescope so to not trouble them, how to obtain a
photographic station, how to smooth down and to frost glass plates, how
to build little aquaria to breed water plants and animals and to obtain
pictures and movies of water organisms. |
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7 - Practical Elements of Optical Microscopy (in Italian
language only)
This handbook describes the structure and the working way of the
stereoscopic and the biological compound microscopes. It will allow you
to get the better from these instruments and to obtain sharper images. This
handbook will supply you the basic concepts of the optical microscopy. |
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8 - How to Prepare Microscope Slides (in Italian
language only)
This handbook deals with the methods to obtain permanent slides in
histology, in hematology and microbiology. It is addressed to the
amateur microscopists and to the student of universities and it bring
them close to the professional methods. Instead of describing many
different techniques, it focus on the fundamental ways. |
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9 - How to Obtain Hematological Slides
(in Italian language only)
This guide is addressed to the students and amateur microscopists who
would like to deepen their knowledge in the field of the morphology of
the human blood cells. It supplies proved techniques of preparation that
are alike to those non automated which are used in the laboratories. |
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