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Introduction

Standard accounts have perpetuated the belief that single-lensed microscopes can generate only indistinct and chromatic images. Numerous attempts to reprise those pioneering experiments have recently been made by several technical groups, and their results have served to perpetuate this belief. In today's presentation we shall see videomicrographs that recreate exactly what was observed in the 17th century by scientists such as Hooke and Leeuwenhoek. The results offer a radically different view of how microscopy began

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University of Cambridge

Pfizer lecture theatre, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, United Kingdom

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SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern region and Cambridge University ChemSoc

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