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The illustration from Woodward's "Report to the Surgeon General, of the United States Army, on the Magnesium and Electric Lights, as Applied to Photo-Micrography," (1970) demonstrates how a light source (A) is concentrated on the lens of the microscope (B) and then projected on to a photographic plate (C).
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