Books connecting to More Than Magnifers should provide
ways for your students to extend and deepen their knowledge of
lenses through literature. Two books listed here are from the
Einstein Anderson series. A chapter from them can be read in class,
leaving the students with a challenge to solve for homework. The
other book is a brief overview of the life of the inventor of
the microscope.
Be on the lookout for other books that feature telescopes, microscopes,
or cameras, and let us know about them. Non-fiction works and
biographies on scientific breakthroughs, such as the classic Paul
de Kruif book Microbe Hunters can be very stimulating reading
for some students, as can books that reveal the microscopic world
or other changes in scale. Two books about Galileo and his historic
telescopic observations are listed under the
GEMS guide Moons of Jupiter.
Einstein Anderson Lights Up the Sky
Einstein Anderson Makes Up For Lost Time
The Microscope
Einstein Anderson Lights Up the
Sky
by Seymour Simon; illustrated by Fred Winkowski
Viking Press, New York. 1982
Grades: 47
In Chapter 3, Einsteins water purification experiment
is interrupted by Hermans questions about eyeglass lenses.
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Einstein Anderson Makes Up For Lost Time
by Seymour Simon; illustrated by Fred Winkowski
Viking Press, New York. 1981
Grades: 47
In The Night Sky, Einstein Anderson and his friend
Dennis observe the Milky Way and Jupiter and its moons. There
is an explanation of refracting and reflecting telescopes.
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The Microscope
by Maxine Kumin; illustrated by Arnold Lobel
Harper & Row, New York. 1968
Grades: 48
A beautifully written and illustrated book, which, while poking
fun at many things, portrays Anton Leeuwenhoek grinding lenses,
the appearance of many common objects under a microscope, and
provides accurate historical information. Although written in
rhyme and with few words, its language is fairly sophisticated,
and it can be read with delight by older students and adults.
This light-hearted literary connection includes good illustrations
of the scales of things as viewed through a microscope.
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