1.6 First microscope studies
The Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was among the first developers of the microscope. Although he lived over 300 years ago, he could already construct precise and functional microscopes.
During the same time, the English natural philosopher Robert Hooke used a microscope to draw the structure of a head louse (pictured). He was the one to come up with the term cell to describe the small parts he observed in oak bark.
