1. Brief History of Microscopes

2. Zacharias Jansen
Dutch, spectacle maker; secretive profession; credited with first compound-like microscope

3. Zacharias Jansen 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

4. Hans Lippershey
German, Lensmaker; credited with inventing the telescope

5. Hans Lippershey German-Dutch Lensmaker Credited with first telescope
Beat out others with his patent application but others making telescopes too
Called the ‘Dutch Perspective Glass’

6. Galileo Galilei
Italian; physicist, mathematician, astronomer, & philosopher; important figure in Scientific Revolution of Europe; credited with improving the telescope and using to study the planets, stars and outer space

7. 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

8. Anthony Leeuwenhoek

9. 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

10. Robert Hooke

11. Robert Hooke ‘English’ Father of Microscopy Colleague of Leeuwenhoek’s
Perfected microscope even more
Accurate, detailed drawings of small organisms
Micrographia

12. References http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/hooke.html
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