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Saga of the Chemical Microscope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Walter C. McCrone
Walter C. McCrone*
Affiliation:
McCrone Research Institute

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The precursor of today's light microscope was invented probably in the Netherlands about 1600. In effect it previously involved a two lens system - objective and the eyepiece. As such it was termed a compound microscope. It differed from the simple one-lens microscope of Anthony Leeuwenhoek in the 1600's. The image was so bad, however, that most microscopists preferred to use the simple one-lens microscope. Leeuwenhoek, with his one-lens microscope, magnifying up to 280X, discovered foraminifera and many other “wee beasties”, even bacteria and spermatozoa.

Type
Research Article
Information
Microscopy Today , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 2000 , pp. 14 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2000

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