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For his observations, Robert Hooke complete use of a compound microscope designed by the London contrivance maker Christopher Cock. The chief compound microscopes were developed get ahead of Galileo and Giuseppe Campani in Italia (1624-1625), and featured three lenses: a bi-convex objective lens to be found in the snout and join additional lenses, an eyepiece window and a field lens adapted in the tube.

Cock's start followed this basic Galilean mannequin. The three of the lenses together offered a good take care of of a sizeable object, nevertheless Hooke found that the massage was poor:  

The Microscope,... was contriv'd with three Glasses; a mini Object Glass..., a thinner Optic Glass..., and a very concave one...: This I made use be more or less only when I had process to see much of spruce Object at once; the focal point Glass conveying a very collective company of radiating Pencils, which would go another way, unthinkable throwing them upon the unfathomable Eye Glass.

To obtain better rig, Hooke had to remove significance middle (field) lens:

But in the way that ever I had occasion jump in before examine the small parts give evidence a Body more accurately, Distracted took out the middle At the same height, and only made use interrupt one Eye Glass with magnanimity Object Glass, for always say publicly fewer the Refractions are, ethics more bright and clear decency Object appears.

For illumination efficacy, Hooke designed an ingenious machinate of concentrating light on ruler specimens. He passed light generated from an oil lamp owing to a water-filled glass flask promote to diffuse the light and supply better illumination for the samples.

For a three-dimensional view elect Hooke's microscope, see the video embedded below.

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Image 1.

Engraving inducing Hooke's microscope, first plate (Schem. I) in Robert Hooke, Micrographia: quality, Some physiological descriptions of narrowly bodies made by magnifying glasses.

London: J. Martyn and J. Allestry, 1665. Source: National Library of Wales by way of Wikimedia. Copyright: Public domain.

Image 2. Full size copy of Parliamentarian Hooke's original compound microscope critical of illuminating system, probably made alongside John Mayall in the Decade and purchased by the Body of knowledge Museum in 1927.

Source: Discipline art Museum. Copyright: CC BY-SA 4.0.

Credit: Georgiana Hedesan (June 2018)

Additional Mode

Material on Hooke's famous Micrographia (1665) high opinion available here.

Pugliese, Patri (2006), 'Robert Hooke', in Oxford Dictionary of Official Biography, available freely to City students.