Science Experiments with a Microscope

Rating:
Summary: A helpful beginners book, but...
Review: This is a paperback reprint, with no revision, of the out-of-print hardback "Fun With Your Microscope", published in 1998. The same authors published "The Microscope Book" in `96; this one has the same format, length, and publisher, and much of the content is similar. It's not clear if this is intended as a revision, since the earlier book isn't even cited. This one has less information on the microscope itself and the same useful advice on specimen preparation. The three dozen observations are mostly biological. They're illustrated with helpful color micrographs of samples prepared with the simple preparation methods described in the book, but their magnifications are presented in a very confusing manner - and a few are simply incorrect. Although there are Science Fair suggestions, there's no bibliography. The earlier version is a better choice.

Rating:
Summary: A helpful beginners book, but...
Review: This is a paperback reprint, with no revision, of the out-of-print hardback "Fun With Your Microscope", published in 1998. The same authors published "The Microscope Book" in '96; this one has the same format, length, and publisher, and much of the content is similar. It's not clear if this is intended as a revision, since the earlier book isn't even cited. This one has less information on the microscope itself and the same useful advice on specimen preparation. The three dozen observations are mostly biological. They're illustrated with helpful color micrographs of samples prepared with the simple preparation methods described in the book, but their magnifications are presented in a very confusing manner - and a few are simply incorrect. Although there are Science Fair suggestions, there's no bibliography. The earlier version is a better choice.