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microscopic organisms, 1665-83 (may 27, 1665 – sep 29, 1683)

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by two Fellows of The Royal Society, Robert Hooke and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. In Micrographia (1665), Hooke presented the first published depiction of a microganism, the microfungus Mucor.

simple microscopes that magnified objects from about 25-fold to 250-fold

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may 27, 1665
sep 29, 1683
~ 18 years