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INTEREST in reflecting microscopes has been considerably stimulated in recent years as a result of the development by Burch1 of instruments of this type with aspheric surfaces. The advantage of the reflecting microscope lies in its complete achromatism, which enables it to be used with ultra-violet, visible or infra-red light, and in its large working distance, which is sufficient for micro-dissection and for viewing objects within furnaces, etc. Burch (loc. cit.) has pointed out that reflecting microscopes can be constructed with spherical mirrors. In this way one avoids the trouble of aspherizing the mirrors, and microscopes of this type have been used by Brumberg2. Details of design and performance, however, have not been available.
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Burch, C. R., Proc. Phys. Soc., 59, 41 (1947).
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SEEDS, W., WILKINS, M. A Simple Reflecting Microscope. Nature 164, 228–229 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164228a0
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