Engraving of a flea; Schem.XXIV. 'Micrographia', published in 1665, is the result of detailed observations by Robert Hooke using the recently invented microscope. The publication was funded by The ...

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Robert Hooke (1635-1703) is best known for his depiction of a flea as seen through his microscope, made scary through magnification: almost all body and little head, a giant apparatus for storing ...

Many images are closely associated with the 17th-century English experimentalist Robert Hooke: the hugely enlarged flea, the orderly plant units he named "cells," among others. To create them, Hooke ...

Microscopy is the scientific field dedicated to the analysis and imaging of materials too small to be viewed with the naked eye. The simplest of all optical microscopes is the brightfield microscope, ...

Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek made extraordinary observations of blood cells, sperm cells and bacteria with his microscopes. But it turns out the lens technology he used was quite ordinary.