BIOB10H3 Lecture Notes - Vacuole, Cell Theory, Archaea
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Microscope: an instrument that provides a magni ed image of a tiny object. Hooke called the pores cells because they reminded him of the cells inhabited by monks living in a monastery. Anton van leeuwenhoek a dutchman who earned a living selling clothes and buttons, was spending his spare time grinding lenses and constructing simple microscopes of remarkable quality. Leeuwenhoek was the rst to examine a drop of pond water under the microscope and, to his amazement, observe the teeming microscopic animalcules that darted back and forth before his eyes. He was also the rst to describe various forms of bacteria, which he obtained from water in which pepper had been soaked and from scrapings of his teeth. His initial letters to the royal society describing this previously unseen world were met with such skepticism that the society dispatched its curator, robert hooke, to con rm the observations.
