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The use of the electron microscope has advanced our understanding of cell biology further than the light microscope. Discuss.” The definition of a microscope is that it is an instrument for viewing objects that are too small
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Heather Sanders - Biology Coursework : Ms Belbin "The use of the electron microscope has advanced our understanding of cell biology further than the light microscope. Discuss." The definition of a microscope is that it is an instrument for viewing objects that are too small to be seen easily by the naked eye. Microscopes have been around since the end of the first century and have become an essential instrument within early and modern-day science. Below is a timeline or the innovation of the microscope from when it was first invented, to today. Circa 1000AD The first vision aid was invented (inventor unknown) called a reading stone. It was a glass sphere that magnified when laid on top of reading materials. Circa 1284 Italian, Salvino D'Armate is credited with inventing the first wearable 'eye glasses'. 1590 Two Dutch eye glass makers, Zaccharias Janssen and son Hans Janssen experimented with multiple lenses placed in a tube. The Janssens observed that...
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