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compound microscope
transmission electron microscope
scanning electron microscope
Robert Hooke's drawings
drawing of a female gnat by Robert Hooke
microscope by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
17th-century compound microscope
magnification
chromatic aberration
spherical aberration
laboratory research
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Abbe, Ernst
Ernst Abbe
German physicist
John Henry Dallmeyer
British manufacturer
Lister, Joseph Jackson
Joseph Jackson Lister
British opticist
Jean de Hautefeuille
French physicist
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist
Eric Betzig
Eric Betzig
American physicist
Hell, Stefan
Stefan Hell
Romanian-born German chemist
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist
Swammerdam, Jan
Jan Swammerdam
Dutch naturalist
Albert Sauveur
American metallurgist

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