Amichi, GB - Amichi

Japanese: アミチ,G.B. - あみち
Amichi, GB - Amichi

…It is no exaggeration to say that the performance of a microscope is determined almost entirely by its objective lens, and the history of microscopes can also be said to be the history of objective lenses. The placement of a plano-convex lens at the tip of an objective lens with the flat side of the lens facing the object is said to have been started by the Italian Giovanni Battista Amici (1786-1863). The discovery of the critical nodal point for obtaining an image free of coma aberration is said to have been made by the Englishman Joseph Jackson Lister (1786-1869), but this was later theorized by E. Abbe as the sine condition for eliminating coma aberration. …

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Japanese:

… 顕微鏡の性能はほとんどその対物レンズで決定されるといっても過言ではなく,顕微鏡の歴史はまたその対物レンズの歴史であるともいえる。対物レンズの先端に平凸レンズを,物体側にレンズの平面側をおいて配置するのはイタリアのアミチGiovanni Battista Amici(1786‐1863)に始まるとされている。またコマ収差のない像を得るための重要な不遊点の発見はイギリスのリスターJoseph Jackson Lister(1786‐1869)によるといわれているが,これは後にE.アッベによってコマ収差除去のため正弦条件として理論化された。…

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