compound microscope
noun
: a microscope consisting of an objective lens and an eyepiece separated by a telescoping tube
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Deploying the newest compound microscopes then being produced by Carl Zeiss in nearby Jena, von Kölliker had in effect moved from the dissection table to the lab, thereby founding a new medical field: microscopic anatomy.
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Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
The authors do see potential for gen AI to be a GPT like the electric dynamo, which continually sparked new business models and efficiencies, or an IMI like the compound microscope, which revolutionized scientific discovery.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2025
But the compound microscope, invented around 1600, opened up a hidden world of microbes, allowing scientists to start naming them after their shapes, said Richard Barnett, a historian of science in Britain.
—New York Times, 2 Mar. 2021
In 1677 Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist and inventor of the first compound microscope, finally gave into peer pressure from his colleagues and used the tool to examine his own semen.
—Courtney Sexton, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2020
Spring Branch Academic Institute - The biology/science classroom will add two digital stereomicroscopes and an advanced compound microscope to its lab.
—Houston Chronicle, 7 June 2019
Around 1590, the father-son team Hans and Zacharias Janssen invented a compound microscope, with lenses at two ends of a tube, producing a nine-power enlargement.
—Doug Main, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2018
Hooke’s observations were based on a relatively simple compound microscope that had two lenses.
—Paul Falkowski, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2015
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Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
The authors do see potential for gen AI to be a GPT like the electric dynamo, which continually sparked new business models and efficiencies, or an IMI like the compound microscope, which revolutionized scientific discovery.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2025
But the compound microscope, invented around 1600, opened up a hidden world of microbes, allowing scientists to start naming them after their shapes, said Richard Barnett, a historian of science in Britain.
—New York Times, 2 Mar. 2021
In 1677 Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist and inventor of the first compound microscope, finally gave into peer pressure from his colleagues and used the tool to examine his own semen.
—Courtney Sexton, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2020
Spring Branch Academic Institute - The biology/science classroom will add two digital stereomicroscopes and an advanced compound microscope to its lab.
—Houston Chronicle, 7 June 2019
Around 1590, the father-son team Hans and Zacharias Janssen invented a compound microscope, with lenses at two ends of a tube, producing a nine-power enlargement.
—Doug Main, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2018
Hooke’s observations were based on a relatively simple compound microscope that had two lenses.
—Paul Falkowski, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2015
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