Microscope

Microscope

An instrument that makes an enlarged image of a small object, revealing details too small to be seen by the unaided eye.

Zacharias and Hans Janssen

Dutch eyeglass makers who invented microscopes in the 1590s.

Galileo Galilei

Developed a compound microscope with a convex and concave lens in 1609.

Compound Microscope

A type of microscope developed by Galileo Galilei.

Giovanni Faber

Coined the term 'microscope' for Galileo's compound microscope in 1625.

Robert Hooke

Published 'Micrographia' in 1665, where he coined the term 'cells' when describing tissue.

Micrographia

A book by Robert Hooke that includes drawings of hairs on a nettle and the honeycomb structure of cork.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Built a simple microscope to examine blood, yeast, and insects in 1676; first to describe cells and bacteria.

Animalcules

Tiny creatures observed by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek in various substances like beer and pond water.

Light Microscope

An instrument for visualizing fine detail of an object using glass lenses and light.

Electron Microscope

A type of microscope that uses a beam of electrons for higher resolution images than light microscopes.

Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll

Developed the electron microscope in 1931.

Scanning Probe Microscope

Microscopy techniques that use a probe to scan a sample's surface and generate images.

Heinrich Rohrer and Gerd Bennig

Developed scanning probe microscopy in the 1980s.