Robert Hooke Microscope

Illustration

Mark Cartwright
by Science Museum, London
published on 19 September 2023
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A microscope of the type invented by the English scientist Robert Hooke (1635-1703). Made between 1671 and 1700. The device on the left, designed by Hooke, is a scotoscope which helped better illuminate the specimen under view in the microscope. (Science Museum, London)

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