Microscope
To make a microscope one needs to use at least one of these lens.
What is a convex lens?
This Italian scientist first used the telescope in 1608 to observe the heavens.
Who was Galileo?
The small European country that gave birth to both the telescope and the microscope.
What is the Netherlands (or Holland)?
The name for the 1600s controversial idea where the sun, not the earth, is the center of a planetary system.
What is heliocentrism?
This insect was analyzed by a microscope and became the subject of the book, The Apiarium (1625).
What is the bee?
Englishman who comes after Galileo and develops basic physics through observation and measurement and who also uses the telescope.
Who was Isaac Newton (d. 1727)?
The time period common to the development of both the telescope and the microscope.
What is the early 1600s?
Astrology is the idea that the planets and stars have some bearing on humans' personality and fate when they are born. This should not be confused with the science of the study of the heavens.
What is astronomy?
The man who was probably the most famous and prolific maker of microscopes in the 1600s.
Who was Leewenhoek?
Sunspots, sun rotation, moons of Jupiter, phases of Venus, mountains on the moon, all these objects and others were seen and described by Galileo in his book.
What is Siderius Nuncius (1610)?
Two essential types of lenses used in tele- and micro- scopes.
What are convex and concave?
About 200 years after its invention, this instrument finally began to generate real scientific discoveries in medicine.
What is the microscope?
In the late 1600s Malpighi used the microscope to look at chicken eggs, and in doing so created this new field of science.
What is embryology?
One of the most famous users of the telescope was Edmund Halley (d. 1742) who accurately predicted the return of this object in the night sky 16 years after his death.
What is a comet, "Halley's Comet" ?
This instrument played a bigger role in overturning old theories faster than the other instrument.
What is the telescope?
The invention of the microscope and the telescope suggested that human ingenuity could generate new ways of seeing the world, and that religious texts should not be the basis of this.
What is science? or scientific fact.
Robert Hooke in England used a microscope extensively in his study of tissues and first used this important word for the field of biology.
What is the word "cell" ?
The earth's atmosphere does not bother or distort the observations of the universe made by this telescope.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope? (or more recently the James Webb Deep Space Telescope)
This instrument was often collected by wealthy households as a kind of curiosity for houseguests and less used in actual science research.
What is the microscope?
The new conception brought about by the microscope and telescope, that the world can be understood beyond human size.
What is the "idea of scale" or magnitude in science and math?