![]() ![]() When you look into a microscope, you are not looking at the specimen, you are looking at the image of the specimen. The image of the rose is magnified because we perceive the actual size of the object (the rose) to be at infinity because our eyes trace the light rays back in straight lines to the virtual image (Figure 1). ![]() This light is refracted and focused by the lens to produce a virtual image on the retina. Light reflected from the rose enters the lens in straight lines as illustrated in Figure 1. The object (in this case the subject is a rose) is being viewed with a simple bi-convex lens. Figure 1 presents an illustration of how a simple magnifying lens operates. Such images are termed virtual images and they appear upright, not inverted. Since the image appears to be on the same side of the lens as the object, it cannot be projected onto a screen. ![]()
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