"Provides microscopic views of the human body, plants and fungi, paper, insects, rocks and crystals, and other objects, and includes a history of microscopes, and activities."--

How do scientists study the moon that is out in space or tiny cells? When things are far away or very small, scientists use magnifying tools to help make things appear bigger and more clear.

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On the Trail of Stardust puts the heavens in your hands-in the form of cosmic dust, or micrometeorites. With this handy guide from the author of the international bestseller In Search of Stardust, Jon Larsen, you will learn how to find micrometeorites in your own neighborhood! Stardust-also known as micrometeorites-is the oldest matter anywhere. Nothing has traveled farther to reach Earth. For a century, scientists have searched everywhere for stardust,...

La révolution qui consiste, à la fin du XVIe siècle, à regarder « à la loupe » non plus directement un objet, mais son image agrandie est à l'origine de la microscopie. L'étymologie (du grec mikros, petit, et skopein, examiner) renvoie à l'examen d'objets ou de détails d'objets à peine perceptibles...

"A biography of seventeenth-century Dutch scientist Antoine van Leeuwenhoek and includes related activities for readers"--Provided by publishers.

¿Qué es la física cuántica? ¿Conoces los misterios más grandes del Universo? La física cuántica es, de todas las teorías científicas, la que quizás más verificaciones y contrastaciones ha recibido al mismo tiempo, y a la vez la más determinante para la vida que llevamos en el siglo XXI.El término "cuántica" proviene de "quantum", que es la unidad más pequeña que conforma la luz. La física cuántica nos demuestra que más allá de...

Greg gets a microscope and has a fascinating time looking at sugar and salt crystals, flower, hair, and much else.

Haptic Visions is about reading messages conveyed about the nanoscale and image use generally, with a particular focus on the rhetorical interactions among images, ourselves, and the material world. More specifically, this book explores how visualizations like Eigler and Schweizer's form persuasive elements in arguments about manipulation and interaction at the atomic scale. Haptic Visions also analyzes how arguments about atomic interaction expressed...