17th century illustration of one of the earliest microscopes, by Robert Hooke.
This public domain image of antique microscopes comes from Robert Hooke’s 17th century text, Micrographia, which investigated the application of microscopes and telescopes in the study of biological organisms. This image in particular gives us a rendering of one of Hooke’s early microscopes.
Hooke lived during Newton’s time and exchanged a number of correspondences with him. They had a falling out after Hooke accused Newton of stealing his ideas on gravity and light, and only now have the scientist’s contributions been acknowledged. To quote Allan Chapman, Hooke is considered to be “England’s Leonardo.”
This text has an expired copyright, therefore it is in the public domain.
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