First microscopy timeline
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Updated: 5 May 2023
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Created byEwan Tamsett
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~710 BC – Nimrud lens~1000 AD – Reading stone~1021 AD – Book of Optics1284 – First eye glasses1590 – Early microscope1609 – Compound microscope1625 – First use of term ‘microscope’1665 – First use of term ‘cells’1676 – Living cells first seen1830 – Spherical aberration solved1874 – Abbe equation1931 – Transmission electron microscope1932 – Phase contrast microscope1942 – Scanning electron microscope1957 – Confocal imaging principle1962 – Green fluorescent protein (GFP) discovered1972 – First CAT scanner1973 – Electron backscatter patterns observed
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