History Of Microscopes

Question 1

Microscope

Answer 1

Instrument for viewing objects too small to be seen by naked eye

Question 2

1 AD

Answer 2

Romana experiment with fist glasses

Writings in Pliny of elder

Burning glasses

Image enlargement

Question 3

800 AD

Answer 3

First vision aid - reading stone

Abbas firnas

Question 4

1284

Answer 4

First wearable glasses

Salvino D’Armte

Question 5

First compound microscope

Answer 5

Zacharias and Jansen in 1595 Holland

10x and 3x

Question 6

Galileo Galilei

Answer 6

Developing telescope

Backed heliocentric view - sun at centre

Member of academia die lincei

1609 - develops own version of compound microscope

1625- faber calls it microscope

Question 7

Leeuwenhoek

Answer 7

Holland 1632-1723

Observed bacteria, yeast, rbc, spermatozoa

Question 8

Hooke

Answer 8

1625-1703

Advanced leeuwenhoeks microscope

Included light source to improve quality and illuminate specimen

Wrote micrographia
Described cells first

Question 9

WhAT DID HOOKE AND LEUWEMHOEK CONTRIBUTE TO?

Answer 9

Schwann and schleiden cell doctrine in 1839

Virchow 1858 cell theory to remak

Question 10

Next 2 centuries

Answer 10

Same principles as pioneers

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