Microscopes have come a long way since 1665

Scopes deliver stunning cell images 350 years after Robert Hooke’s Micrographia

cork and cow cells

CENTURIES OF PROGRESS  A Robert Hooke drawing from his 1665 book Micrographia (right) depicts little boxes in a slice of cork that he called cells. Today microscopes provide extraordinary views of cells, like these (left) from a cow.

Robert Markus; The Royal Society

In 1665, English scientist Robert Hooke published Micrographia, a book full of drawings depicting views through what was then a novel invention: the microscope.