Microscope

• Microscope


  An instrument used to magnify a tiny object
• The Romans discovered the first lens
• Lens

  It was derived from the Latin word lentil-as it resembled the shape of a lentil bean
• Compound microscope


  Zacharias Janssen made the first one
• Microscope builders

  • Robert Hooke
  • Zacharias Janssen
• Cell


  Cellula means small compartment. It eventually became the word cell
• Micrographia


  One of the first detailed handbook on microscopy and imaging
• Scientists who studied with microscopes

  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
  • Studied bacteria, blood cells, and protists
• Anton Van Leeuwenhoek made a microscope which had a more powerful magnification than what Hooke built