Isn't it strange enough how Microbiologists claim there are creatures which we cannot see and yet they try to explain to us how these things behave? How then did they "see" those tiny little things?

Well, you are on the right thread. I'll be clearing the air on how the "magicians" observe those incredibly minute creatures out of which some of them are having a feast on your tongue right now. Like it or not Now back to business

All thanks to Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek, who is regarded as the "Father of Microbiology" and who also made significant developments to the first system of magnifying lenses which is now known as the MICROSCOPE.

Today, Microbiologists make use of the instrument, the microscope, to visualize the extremely small structures of microorganisms which would otherwise have remained a mystery.

A microscope is basically a system of magnifying lenses(glasses). Visualize a single man addressing a crowd of 10,000 people. His voice will be almost non existent except he uses a sound amplifying system. This system "increases" his voice so all can hear clearly.

A microscope works in like manner. It multiplies the IMAGE of the object(in this case the micro organism.) So that the observer can see what the specimen is actually like.

Microscopes differ in their ability to "multiply" the image of the object to be viewed. This is called MAGNIFICATION. Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek's microscope only had a magnification of 200x at most. This simply means that his microscope could only make an object 200 times bigger.

Today, that feat is nowhere near the microscopes of today which can make us magnify objects to 2,000 and above with the electron microscope able to magnify an object up to 10 million times.

This allows us to see clearly the concealed structures of these organisms. This is how a microscope looks like so you can ask a lab technologist to let you observe an organism through one the next time you are in a microbiology lab.

Up Next, we will analyse the various fields in microbiology.

Microbiology is not the study of invisible or micro organisms.

python1:
Microbiology is not the study of invisible or micro organisms.

Ok sir. Can you throw more light on your opinion sir?

True!! The staining helps for clarity.
The microscope is one of the great inventions. Helps us see the invisible; at least to the human eyes.

Ritajovy:
True!! The staining helps for clarity.
The microscope is one of the great inventions. Helps us see the invisible; at least to the human eyes.

Yes ma, even though not all specimens to be observed require staining. The microscope is indeed a great achievement by man.