Microscope: Making it Big

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Traces the development of the microscope as a research tool and assesses its impact on scientific discoveries. Characterizes the impressions of seventeenth-century scientists Anton van Leeuwenhoek and Robert Hooke upon viewing objects under early microscopes. Presents footage of cataract surgery aided by sophisticated microscopic instruments.

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