assembled field microscope

I think this microscope was used as an analysis tool in a medical regiment of Soviet Army in 1930-1940's.

This thing lets me feel myself one little step closer to Antoni van Leeuwenhoek times - no switchable high NA apochromatic lenses, no ergonomic eyepieces, no motorized focusing and scanning stages, no LED lighting, no Abbe's theory for diffraction and image formation. Only a single tiny lens and a candle as lightsource.

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Uploaded on August 26, 2008
Taken on August 26, 2008