With the invention of the microscope at the beginning of the seventeenth century, it became possible to take a first glimpse at the previously invisible world of microscopic life. A bewildering ...

We believe that the travelling microscope was made well over 100 years ago and was used by my great great grandfather, a zoologist who travelled the world collecting samples. He may have inherited ...

Late 1600s – Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek constructed a microscope with a single spherical lens. It magnified up to ×275. 1800s - the optical quality of lenses increased and the ...