《Milestones in Light Microscopy》.pdf

MILESTONES was enormously influential and m i l e s to n e 1 demonstrated for the first time what microscopy could do for science. Van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) The beginning was a Dutch draper with no formal scientific training, who became fascinated by the magnifying glasses used to count the threads in cloth. Letters by William Borel, the He learned how to grind and polish Dutch envoy to the court of France, lenses and developed such techniques mentions the Dutch spectacle-maker further. Van Leeuwenhoek made Hans Jansen and his son Zacharias more than 500 simple microsc