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Microbiology - The study of living things unseen to the eye First Microscope (year and who) - Zacharias Jansen: 1590 Robert Hooke - 1. Biologist/environmentalist 2. British scientist Robert Hooke was the first to.. - describe "cells" and come up with word for description of sub-compartments Robert Hooke published.. - Micrographie What was micrographie - 1. Drawings of what he saw through microscope 2. Inspired people to use microscope to look at living things When was Robert Hooke relevant - 1665 Anton van Leeuwenhoek - From Dutch (enemy country of England); he was a merchant importer/exporter; politician and keeper of the weights and keep people from cheating you on weights Who helped Leeuwenhoek and how? - 1. Hooke helped publish drawings 2. Hooke inspired Leeuwenhook and there is no way he would have got published without him What was Leeuwenhoek's only publication - Royal Society of London What all did Leewenhoek look at.. - • Looked at the quality of cloth • Developed magnifying glasses to look at thread counts • Read Hookes books and made own small magnifying lens mounted into 2 metal pieces and could see higher resolution and magnification than any microscope of that time • Viewed pond water, feces, tooth scrapings, semen, ect. Leeuwenhoek was first to describe: - -Bacteria: all three shapes [spirili- spiral shaped, cocci- round shaped and bascilli- rod shaped] he even knew the motion -Protozoa (animalcue: as little as molecules but act like animals) -Semen- (sperm) didn't get it right because he thought it had human in it -Red blood cells- contained in packets -Capillary connects between arteries and veins