INTRODUCTION
MICROSCOPE PARTS MAGNIFICATION RESOLUTION
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Question
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek
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Robert Hooke
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Matthias Schleiden
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Theodor Schwann
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Detailed explanation-1: -Robert Hook refined the design of the compound microscope around 1665 and published a book titled Micrographia which illustrated his findings using the instrument.
Detailed explanation-2: -It’s not clear who invented the first microscope, but the Dutch spectacle maker Zacharias Janssen (b. 1585) is credited with making one of the earliest compound microscopes (ones that used two lenses) around 1600.
Detailed explanation-3: -Robert Hooke was the first person who saw cells using a microscope.
Detailed explanation-4: -Important Figures in Cell History: Robert Hooke was an English scientist who looked at a thin slice of cork (oak cork) through a compound microscope. He observed tiny, hollow, room-like structures that he called ‘cells’ because they reminded him of the rooms that the monks lived in.