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A brief history of microscopy by i-heart-histo
c2000 BC
The Chinese use water microscopes made of a lens and a water filled tube to better visualize smaller objects.
1590
Hans Jansen and his son Zacharias Jansen invent the compound microscope.
1609
Galileo Galilei develops a compound microscope with a convex and concave lens. Calling it the occhiolino - the little eye.
1625
The term ‘microscope’ is coined by Giovanni Faber of Bamberg, an anology with the word ‘telescope’
1665
Robert Hooke publishes Micrographia and coins the word ‘cell’ after his examination of cork bark.
1674
Anton van Leuwenhoek develops the compound microscope to optimize it for observing biological specimens.
1860s
Ernst Abbe discovers the Abbe sine condition for manipulating the axis of optical systems to improving sharpess of images. This breakthrough in microscope design was exploited by microscope manufacturers Zeiss and Leitz resulting in a microscope boom.
1920
Olympus manufacture their first microscope - the Asahi.
1957
The Olympus DF Biological Microscope becomes the first microscope to feature an attached light source rather than a mirror that reflects light on the specimen.
1976
The popular CH series of Olympus microscopes appear in universities and colleges around the world. Chances are your college still uses these lab teaching scopes (or the slightly newer CH2 version).
1993
Introduction of a unique Y-shaped design for the microscope body for enhancing optics.
2004
Confocal and virtual microscopy are now common place.

A brief history of microscopy by i-heart-histo

c2000 BC

The Chinese use water microscopes made of a lens and a water filled tube to better visualize smaller objects.

1590

Hans Jansen and his son Zacharias Jansen invent the compound microscope.

1609

Galileo Galilei develops a compound microscope with a convex and concave lens. Calling it the occhiolino - the little eye.

1625

The term ‘microscope’ is coined by Giovanni Faber of Bamberg, an anology with the word ‘telescope’

1665

Robert Hooke publishes Micrographia and coins the word ‘cell’ after his examination of cork bark.

1674

Anton van Leuwenhoek develops the compound microscope to optimize it for observing biological specimens.

1860s

Ernst Abbe discovers the Abbe sine condition for manipulating the axis of optical systems to improving sharpess of images. This breakthrough in microscope design was exploited by microscope manufacturers Zeiss and Leitz resulting in a microscope boom.

1920

Olympus manufacture their first microscope - the Asahi.

1957

The Olympus DF Biological Microscope becomes the first microscope to feature an attached light source rather than a mirror that reflects light on the specimen.

1976

The popular CH series of Olympus microscopes appear in universities and colleges around the world. Chances are your college still uses these lab teaching scopes (or the slightly newer CH2 version).

1993

Introduction of a unique Y-shaped design for the microscope body for enhancing optics.

2004

Confocal and virtual microscopy are now common place.

Axis Powers Hetalia: Nation Birthdays

January: 08 Monaco
January: 18 Prussia (Gilbert Beilschmidt) Age 20, 177-178 cm
January: 26 Australia (Ralph, Christian, Kyle, Jett)
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February: 02 Holy Roman Empire aka HRE 95 cm
February: 03 Greece (Heracles Karpusi) Age 27
February: 11 Japan (Honda Kiku) Age secret, 165 cm
February: 12 Spain (Antonio Fernandez Carriedo) Age 25
February: 16 Lithuania (Toris Lorinaitis)  Age 19
February: 24 Estonia (Eduard Von Bock) Age 17
February: 28 Egypt (Gupta Muhammad Hassan)
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March: 17 North Italy/Veneziano (Feliciano Vargas) Age 20, 172 cm
March: 17 South Italy/Romano (Lovino Vargas) Age 22-23
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April: 19 Belgium (Laura, Emma, Anri, Manon)
April: 23 Britain/England/UK (Arthur Kirkland) Age 23, 175 cm
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May: 17 Norway (Lukas Bondevik, Børre Thomassen, Bjørn, Kjetil, Knut, Sigurd)
May: 20 Cuba (Máximo, (Juan), Ericemdo, and Carlos Machado)
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June: 05 Denmark (Andersen, Christensen, Arnesen, Simon Densen, Abel, Mikkel, Magnus, Bertram)
June: 06 Sweden (Berwald Oxenstierna) Age 21, 182cm
June: 08 Hungary (Elizaveta Héderváry) Age 20s 160 cm
June: 17 Iceland (Emil Steilsson, Sigurður, Eiríkur, and Egill)
June: 29 Seychelles
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July: 01 Canada (Matthew Williams)
July: 01 Hong Kong (Wang Jia Long, Li Xiao Chun)
July: 04 America/US (Alfred F. Jones) Age 19, 177 cm "Franklin", "Foster", or "Fuck"
July: 12 Liechtenstein (Erika, Tutsia, Elise, and Eva)
July: 14 France (Francis Bonnefoy) Age 26, 175 cm
July: 22 Poland (Feliks Lukasiewicz) Age 19
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August: 01 Switzerland (Vash Zwingli) Age 18
August: 15 South Korea (Im Yun Soo) Age 15-16
August: 24 Ukraine (Irunya Chernenko, Maria, and Sofia)
August: 25 Belarus (Natalie/Natasha Arlovskaya) 160+ cm
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September: 02 Sealand (Peter Kirkland) Age 12, 130 cm
September: 02 Vietnam
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October: 03 Germany (Ludwig) Age 20, 180 cm
October: 10 China (Wang Yao) Age 4000 169 cm
October: 25 Taiwan (Lin Yi Ling or Xiao Mei)150 cm
October: 26 Austria (Roderich Edelstein)
October: 29 Turkey (Sadık Adnan)
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November: 15 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
November: 15 Wy
November: 18 Latvia (Raivis Galante) Age 15 140 cm
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December: 06 Finland (Tino(Timo) Väinämöinen) Age 20 170 cm
December: 30 Russia (Ivan Braginsky) Age unknown, 182 cm
I did not add countries I could not find Birth Dates for. For countries with out names I added potential selected names from Hidekaz Himaruya as per Hetalia Archives All inforomation does not come from this site. http: //hetalia.kitawiki.net/index.php?title=Main_Page
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So, in the middle of everything today, we ran across a hellaciously distressed momma mallard and a bunch of her baby ducks that had fallen down a sewer grate. Another guy was already trying to fish them out, so my friend and I called animal control before we tried to fish the rest of them out. When Animal Control got there, we had all of them out and the mother duck quacking very happily. I was surprised - none of us got snapped at or hurt. I was even holding onto a bag at one point that had all of them in it and she just watched me.

I love how the duck is perched on the guy’s butt

I’M SO HAPPY