To create them, Hooke used elaborately gold-stamped and turned microscopes such as the one pictured. Hooke's images, which persist among the most well-known depictions in all of science, appeared ...

All inspired by the work of renowned scientist Robert Hooke who in 1665 published a book called Micrographia, full of drawings of creatures and plants seen through his microscope. The image of a ...

In a remote village in eastern India, dozens of underprivileged children are for the first time marveling at the elaborate details of flower petals with the help of a microscope—made out of bamboo.