Photographing Chromosomes--The Colored Bodies.(photography and science)

From: PSA Journal | Date: December 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

General science and medicine evolved substantially with development of the microscope. Objects that are visible to the naked eye are macroscopic, while articles requiring magnifying lenses are microscopic if close by and telescopic if distant. Dutch cloth merchant Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) built microscopes with resolutions of x270 enabling him to describe blood corpuscles and spermatozoa. Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), regarded by some as father of biological microscopy, developed tissue preparation techniques to study cellular components of organ systems (histology) in ...

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