Download - Microscope: Then and Now
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History of Microscope
Microbiology and Medicine
During the 1st century AD (year 100), glass had been
invented and the Romans were looking through the glass and testing it.
First Eyeglasses
12th Century - Salvino D'Armate from Italy made the first eye glass, providing the wearer with an element of magnification to one eye.
First Compound Microscope
First Compound Microscope
1590 - Two Dutch spectacle makers, Zacharias Jansen and his father Hans started experimenting by mounting two lenses in a tube, the first compound microscope.
1609 - Galileo Galilei develops a compound microscope with a convex and a concave lens.
Circa 1670
Robert Hooke
Scientists are Artists
Robert Hooke
InventorArchitect, ScientistArtistDesigner
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Actual size of Leeuwenhoek's Microscope
1674 Anton van Leeuwenhoek used his knowledge of grinding lenses to achieve
greater magnification which he utilised to make a microscope, enabling detailed observations to be made of bacteria.
Lens breakthrough
Achromatic Lens
The electron microscope was invented in 1931 by two German scientists, Max Knott and Ernst Ruska.
1931
TEMTransmission Electron Microscope
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SEMScanning Electron Microscope
Stereo Microscope or dissecting microscope
Light Microscopes Optical Microscopes
Scanning Probe Microscope