Editing Microscopy (section)

== History ==
[[File:Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723). Natuurkundige te Delft Rijksmuseum SK-A-957.jpeg|thumb|250px|[[Antonie van Leeuwenhoek]] (1632–1723)]]

The field of microscopy ([[optical microscopy]]) dates back to at least the 17th-century. Earlier microscopes, single [[lens (optics)|lens]] [[magnifying glass]]es with limited magnification, date at least as far back as the wide spread use of lenses in [[eyeglasses]] in the 13th century<ref>Atti Della Fondazione Giorgio Ronchi E Contributi Dell'Istituto Nazionale Di Ottica, Volume 30, La Fondazione-1975, page 554</ref> but more advanced [[compound microscope]]s first appeared in Europe around 1620<ref>{{cite book|author1=Albert Van Helden|author2=Sven Dupré|author3=Rob van Gent|title=The Origins of the Telescope|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XguxYlYd-9EC&pg=PA24|year=2010|publisher=Amsterdam University Press|isbn=978-90-6984-615-6|page=24|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215200146/https://books.google.com/books?id=XguxYlYd-9EC&pg=PA24|archive-date=15 February 2017|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>William Rosenthal, Spectacles and Other Vision Aids: A History and Guide to Collecting, Norman Publishing, 1996, page 391 - 392</ref> The earliest practitioners of microscopy include [[Galileo Galilei]], who found in 1610 that he could close focus his telescope to view small objects close up<ref>Robert D. Huerta, Giants of Delft: Johannes Vermeer and the Natural Philosophers : the Parallel Search for Knowledge During the Age of Discovery, Bucknell University Press - 2003, page 126</ref><ref>A. Mark Smith, From Sight to Light: The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics, University of Chicago Press - 2014, page 387</ref> and [[Cornelis Drebbel]], who may have invented the compound microscope around 1620.<ref name="Raymond J. Seeger 2016, page 24">Raymond J. Seeger, Men of Physics: Galileo Galilei, His Life and His Works, Elsevier - 2016, page 24</ref><ref name="J. William Rosenthal 1996, page 391">J. William Rosenthal, Spectacles and Other Vision Aids: A History and Guide to Collecting, Norman Publishing, 1996, page 391</ref> [[Antonie van Leeuwenhoek]] developed a very high magnification simple microscope in the 1670s and is often considered to be the first acknowledged [[list of microscopists|microscopist]] and [[microbiologist]].<ref name="BrianJFord_1992">{{cite journal |author=Ford, Brian J. |author-link=Brian J. Ford |date=1992 |title=From Dilettante to Diligent Experimenter: a Reappraisal of Leeuwenhoek as microscopist and investigator |url=http://www.brianjford.com/a-avl01.htm |journal=Biology History |volume=5 |issue=3 |access-date=2021-04-16 |archive-date=2021-04-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419130610/http://www.brianjford.com/a-avl01.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[[Nick Lane|Lane, Nick]] (6 March 2015). "The Unseen World: Reflections on Leeuwenhoek (1677) 'Concerning Little Animal'." ''Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci''. 2015 Apr; 370 (1666): 20140344. [doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0344]</ref>