A compound microscope's basic design consists of convex lenses fitted on the ends of a hollow tube. This tube is attached to rotary or adjustable nosepiece.
These are the evolved, refined, and fine-tuned progeny of the simple microscope, read a tube with one end containing a plate for the specimen and a lens at the opposite end to view the object in its magnified state at 10 x more its original diameter.
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