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Microscope history

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1590

Before _______ the human eye was the limit of biology. smaller than 0.1mm

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Robert Hooke

Examined a thin slice of cork.

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Cellula “small spaces where monks inhabit”

Cells came from the word

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Robert Hooke

England’s Leonardo Davinci

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1665

The discovery of the cell

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1590 - Hans and Zacharias Janssen

Placed multiple lenses in a tube and found out that objects seen through the tube appear greatly enlarged

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1609 - Galileo Galilei

Invented a compound microscope using convex and concave lenses

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Occhiolino

Galileo called this the little eye

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1625 - Giovanni Faber

This was the first time the term microscope was used by _____ to refer to Galileo’s microscope

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1665 - Robert Hooke , micrographia

Coined the term Cell i his publication _______

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1676 - Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

First to see living cells (yeast, insects, blood cells)

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1830 - Joseph Lister

Reduced spherical abberations to get a good magnification without blurring

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1590 = Hans Janssen and Zacharias Janssen

1609 = Galileo Galilei

1625 = Giovanni Faber

1665 = Robert Hooke

1676 = Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

1830 = Joseph Lister

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Chronological order of microscope history