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Brief History
of
Microscopes
Zacharias Jansen
1580- 1638
Zacharias Jansen
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Dutch
Spectacle Maker
Secretive Profession (art of making spectacles)
put two magnifying lenses together to make
something larger than just using one lens
• Credited with idea of first compound
microscope
Hans Lippershey
1570 - 1619
Hans Lippershey
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German-Dutch
Lensmaker
Credited with first telescope
Beat out others with his patent application
but others making telescopes too
• Called the ‘Dutch Perspective Glass’
Galileo Galilei
1564 - 1642
Galileo Galilei
• Italian
• Man of many hats
• Associated with telescope
– Perfected telescope lenses
– Smoother, more polished
– Stronger magnification power
– Turned it towards skies to study the planets, stars
and sun
Anthony Leeuwenhoek
1632 -1723
Anthony Leeuwenhoek
• Dutch
• Dry goods tradesman
• Needed better magnification lens to count
threads in cloth in his dry goods trade
• Found ways to grind and polish them to make
them better
• Became more interested in science
• Animalcules, bacteria, yeast, blood cells
Robert Hooke
1635 - 1703
Robert Hooke
• ‘English’ Father of
Microscopy
• Colleague of
Leeuwenhoek’s
• Perfected microscope
even more
• Accurate, detailed
drawings of small
organisms
• Micrographia
References
• http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/hooke
.html
• Images from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page