Unspecified / 1961
Microscope
The Smithsonian catalogs Microscope as microscope in its Science & Scientific Instruments records.
Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek (1635-1723) was a Dutch tradesman who became interested in microscopy while on a visit to London in 1666. Returning home, he began making simple microscopes of the sort that Robert Hooke had described in his, Micrographia , and using them to discover objects invisible to the naked eye.
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The Smithsonian lists the object under Science & Scientific Instruments and dates it 1961.
Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek (1635-1723) was a Dutch tradesman who became interested in microscopy while on a visit to London in 1666. Returning home, he began making simple microscopes of the sort that Robert Hooke had described in his, Micrographia , and using them to discover objects invisible to the naked eye.
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