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What does apochromatic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (optics) Corrected for both chromatic aberration and spherical aberration.
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In 1868 he invented the apochromatic lens system for the microscope.
The sophisticated apochromatic correction allows these objectives to attain the highest color brilliance and fidelity.
In 1868 he invented an apochromatic system of lenses, which had even better colour correction than achromatic lenses, and in 1873 he published a comprehensive analysis of lens theory.
I hope the following history of the apochromatic lens designs made by Roland Christen of Astro-Physics is of some interest to the readers.
The S8 APO stereomicroscope offers a fully apochromatic corrected optics system.
The apochromatic lens, therefore, corrects for chromatic aberration to a greater degree than does an achromatic lens.

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