http://inventorofmicroscope.com All About inventor of microscope Fri, 18 May 2007 06:49:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Dutch people who have a history and tradition in inventing and discovery gave a great contribution to science. They were the pioneers of microscopy. Their phenomenal contribution was producing the small but powerful lenses with which they probe at the frontier of the micro world. The first compound microscope ... http://inventorofmicroscope.com/inventor-of-microscope/dutchmen-hans-and-zacharias-jansenn-early-microscopists/ The microscopes of the two inventors: Robert Hooke and Anthony van Leeuwenhoek had been imitated and became about equally popular for many years. However, both microscopes too presented difficulties in terms of their microscopes and microscopy usage and offered distinct disadvantages. The compound microscope of Robert Hooke, the double lenses ... http://inventorofmicroscope.com/inventor-of-microscope/hooke-vs-leeuwenhoek/ Born in Holland in 1632, Anthony van Leeuwenhoek was a successful linen merchant. During those times Robert Hooke devoted himself to magnifying part of visible, familiar things, or what we call microscopy. He never suspected that on a still smaller scale there existed forms of life that were as yet ... http://inventorofmicroscope.com/inventor-of-microscope/anthony-van-leeuwenhoek-microscope-inventor/ An Englishman named Robert Hooke, born in 1635, was one of the early inventors of the microscope and microscopy. While most of his contemporaries, or the other early inventors of the microscope, were busy fitting glass lenses into telescopes for gazing distant objects, Hooke, an inventor of the microscope and ... http://inventorofmicroscope.com/inventor-of-microscope/robert-hooke-microscope-inventor/