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Aug 22, 2023 · The microscope was one of the most significant inventions of the Scientific Revolution, opening up completely new and miniaturised worlds. The first microscopes were invented in the first quarter of...
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Sep 14, 2013 · English scientist Robert Hooke improved the microscope, too, and explored the structure of snowflakes, fleas, lice and plants. He coined the term "cell" from the Latin cella, which means "small...
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Born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield farm near Darvel, in Ayrshire, Scotland, Alexander Fleming was the third of four children of farmer Hugh Fleming (1816–1888) and Grace Stirling Morton (1848–1928), the daughter of a neighbouring farmer. Hugh Fleming had four surviving children from his first marriage. He was 59 at the time of his second ...
- 11 March 1955 (aged 73), London, England
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- 6 August 1881, Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland
Dec 24, 2022 · Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) was one of the first people to observe microorganisms, using a microscope of his own design, and made one of the most important contributions to biology. Robert Hooke was the first to use a microscope to observe living things.
Mar 7, 2024 · Alexander Fleming (born August 6, 1881, Lochfield Farm, Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland—died March 11, 1955, London, England) was a Scottish bacteriologist best known for his discovery of penicillin. Fleming had a genius for technical ingenuity and original observation.
Jul 17, 2018 · Robert Hooke, the English father of microscopy, re-confirmed Anton van Leeuwenhoek's discoveries of the existence of tiny living organisms in a drop of water. Hooke made a copy of Leeuwenhoek's light microscope and then improved upon his design.
Mar 27, 2018 · Robert Hooke’s famous book Micrographia of 1665, with its sumptuous illustrations of tiny things, confirmed the importance of the new technology for observation. It was the Dutch Antony Van Leeuwenhoek who used the microscope to start making discoveries, not just bigger pictures of things.
