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A Brief History of Microscopy

  • Rochow T
  • Tucker P
Springer US, (1994), 1-21
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-1513-9_1
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Abstract

All kinds of microscopy have a common beginning in mankind’s intellectual goal to see better. Visible light was the first medium, and visibility was limited to the unaided eye until the first century a.d., when Seneca discovered(1) that by looking through a...

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Rochow, T. G., & Tucker, P. A. (1994). A Brief History of Microscopy. In Introduction to Microscopy by Means of Light, Electrons, X Rays, or Acoustics (pp. 1–21). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1513-9_1

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