EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Interested in learning more about the microscopic world, scientist Robert Hooke improved the design of the existing compound microscope in 1665. His microscope used three lenses and a stage light, which illuminated and enlarged the specimens.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1665 Robert Hooke published what would become his most famous work, Micrographia (”Small Drawings”). In it he included his studies and illustrations of the crystal structure of snowflakes and first used the word cell to name the microscopic honeycomb cavities in cork.

Detailed explanation-3: -From 1655 he was employed by Boyle and his first project was to construct an air pump. The main area of Boyle’s interests were in chemistry but he had read of experiments conducted by von Guericke with the aid of an air pump and, knowing Hooke’s skill with mechanical instruments, asked him if he could build one.

Detailed explanation-4: -Robert Hooke was a famous scientist, born in 1635. He most famously discovered the Law of Elasticity (or Hooke’s Law) and did a huge amount of work on microbiology (he published a famous book called Micrographia, which included sketches of various natural things under a microscope).