This is because a compound microscope is a high magnifying microscope that have multiple lenses or two magnifying lenses which help to see or observe or magnify image very well compare to single lense. It is a high power microscope and it has high level of magnification because of the
two magnifying lenses. It produces two dimensional image. The eyepieces and the objective lenses give a very high magnification, a condenser that is below the stage focus the light into the specimen to be viewed.
