Complete Book of the Microscope (Usborne Internet-linked Reference): 1 - Softcover

Kirsteen Rogers

 
9781409555513: Complete Book of the Microscope (Usborne Internet-linked Reference): 1
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1409555518 ISBN 13: 9781409555513
Verlag: Usborne Publishing Ltd, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

A fabulous and revealing introduction to the secrets of the microscopic world.

Features amazing photos of what can be discovered through a microscope, from atoms to algae and dust to DNA. With over 20 step-by-step microscope activities including preparing slides and observing everyday objects, insects and even your own cheek cells. Includes practical information on buying, using and taking care of a microscope. With internet-links to websites with more amazing photos, projects and activities.

Chapters in this book include:
The micro world
- Larger than life
- Making things looks bigger
- Using a microscope
- Paper and print
- Fibres and fabrics
- Odds and ends
- Clues to the past
- Solving crimes

The human body
- On your head
- Bodywork
- Body cells
- Inside a body cell
- Inside a nucleus
- Bacteria
- Viruses
- Microscopes in medicine
- Microscopes and surgery

Plants and fungi
- Looking at plants
- Plant food
- How plants spread
- Water plants
- Fungi
- Food science

Creepy crawlies
- Insect watching
- Insects up close
- Watery minibeasts
- Unwelcome guests
- Body residents
- The plant eaters

Rocks to robots
- Sand and rocks
- Microfossils
- Crystals
- More crystals
- Testing metals
- Micromachines
- Nanotechnology
- A nano future?

Past and present
- Early microscopes
- The war on germs
- Microscopes today

Practical points
- Buying a microscope
- Equipment
- Advanced techniques

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kirsteen Robson (Author)
Kirsteen Robson joined Usborne in 1997 with a background in music, education, and Christian publishing. She has written and edited over 300 Usborne titles, from dictionaries and encyclopedias to activity books with flaps, stickers and sounds. She loves the challenge of writing about anything from aardvarks to zombies.

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Verlag
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1409555518
ISBN 13 
9781409555513
Einband
Taschenbuch
Zeichner
Gary Bines, Peter Bull
Anzahl der Seiten
96
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