We often think of a microscope as a large and heavy metal object with milled knobs, wheels, gears, racks, pinions and stainless steel and with complex arrangements of lenses that take an invisible object and reproduce it as a room-sized image through the might of modern technology. Well, yes, that is how we do think […]

Remember that Leeuwenhoek’s microscopes were not the first. That is an important point to emphasize at the outset. Many descriptions of microscopes show the simple type of instrument he made, as it were, at the base of the microscopes family tree, so that the complicated contractions of more recent years spring from these simple beginning. […]

Twenty-six of Leeuwenhoek’s microscopes are very likely still in existence, lying in a dusty attic in London , unrecognized. Of the nine known to be associated with his name, one was discovered a few years ago in a discarded box of laboratory oddments. Other microscopes of the greatest historic importance have turned up in cupboards, […]

The simple microscope can be traced existent at around 1700 in Delft, Netherlands, having utilized by a draper named Leeuwenhoek. His name, as it has come down to us, is Antony van Leeuwenhoek, but he was christened ‘Thonis’, and acquired the ‘van’ as an affectation in 1685 when he was fifty-two. He had a normal […]

The earliest simple microscope from its key word simple meaning, easy to use, not complicated. Since it had only one lens and is called Simple microscope. Unlike compound microscope that contain two or more lenses. Simple microscopes are magnifying glasses or its other term, hand glass. It was the first simple microscope used by Anton […]