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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