It is available from the publisher online here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals ... 1F8ABF16E4
(Note that Cambridge no longer publishes Microscopy Today. It is now published by Oxford.) Glenn Shipley also sent a nice note to Oliver Kim in response to his initial post "What in the World is Microbe Hunting?"
https://www.microbehunter.com/what-in-t ... e-hunting/
Shipley contrasted amateur microscopy against amateur astronomy:
Myself, like most kids who were interested in science, I had both a telescope and a microscope. However, as an adult, my amateur astronomy dates to 2015, whereas I bought my first microscope for myself only in March 2022 and it was not until August that I acquired my AmScope B270. So, for me, Shipley's essay was relevant."Nevertheless, the opportunities to do direct observational astronomy with the telescope are extremely limited. It must be done at night with clear skies unencumbered with air o light-pollution. When these increasingly rare conditions are present, the viewer needs a rather large and expensive telescope to see anything more than the moons of upiter or the profile of craters on the moon. Compare that with microscopy, which practitioners can be do anywhere, any time of the day or night, under any weather conditions, and can have an incredible variety of specimens to look at--specmens that have color shape, internal structure, and sometimes even move around The instruments to see these objects are cheap, widely available, and completely portable. So why are not more people doing it?"
Thanks,
Mike M.