History Of Microscope

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Prehistory and Ancient Times

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-ancient civilizations were aware of lenses and used them fir magnification

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• earliest lenses date back to

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700 BCE

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Medieval Islamic World

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Optics

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-made significant advancements in optics

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Alhazen

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Late Middle Ages and Renaissance

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European craftsmen began producing eyeglasses

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Late 16th century

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compound microscope

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-created the first compound microscope around 1590

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Zacharias Janssen

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-consisted of two lenses that could magnify objects up to 10 times

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Compound microscope

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Early 17th century

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-simple microscope
-Leeuwenhoek

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-father of microscopy
-Dutch draper and amateur scientist
-developed simple microscope

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Anton can Leeuwenhoek

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-consists of a single, high quality lens mounted in a metal holder
-bacteria, sperm cells and blood cells

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Simple microscope

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17th and 18th centuries

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-improvement in lens grinding techniques
-more sophisticated microscopes
-Robert Hooke
-Marcello Malpighi
-Jan Swammerdam

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19th century

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-development of achromatic lenses, which reduced chromatic aberration, improved image clarity and resolution
-Ernst Abbe
-Carl Zeiss

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20th century

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-electron microscope
-phase contrast microscopy
-fluorescence microscopy
-confocal microscopy

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21st century

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-incredibly detailed images of biological structures at the molecular and cellular levels

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-Dutch
-concept of compound microscope

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Zaccharias Janssen and Hans Lipperhey

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-perfected the first microscope
-occhiolino or little eye

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Galileo Galilei

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-Dutch cloth merchant turned scientist
-300 times magnification using simple single lens microscope

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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-snowflakes, fleas, lice and plants
-coined the term cell
-described small rooms
-book “Micrographia” 1665

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Robert hooke

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-Italian scientist
-discovered capillaries in dried lungs of a frog
-supported Harveys theory of blood circulation

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Marcello Malpighi