From 129e8e7325f69846d592fb753e46595e390a2cc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Juares Beber Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2021 15:27:08 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update information regarding Leeuwenhoek I couldn't find references to sustain the information that Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope. Indeed [his letter][0] to the royal society was a mark in the microbiology area and motivated Hooke to improve the research of microrganisms, but the microscope was already invented and even used, for example, by Hoooke himself to write Micrographia. This commit changes the information to refer Leeuwenhoek as one the first microscopists and microbiologists, instead of the inventor of the microscope. [0]: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2014.0344 --- _includes/chapter-0-content.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/_includes/chapter-0-content.md b/_includes/chapter-0-content.md index d4c14ab..fd566e2 100644 --- a/_includes/chapter-0-content.md +++ b/_includes/chapter-0-content.md @@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ important player in relaying information and chronicling history. The requirement for visual feedback is so important that it is hard to acknowledge the existence of something if you cannot see it. Bacteria, for instance, were purely speculative before their visual discovery in the seventeenth century by -Antonie van Leeuwenhoek who invented the microscope, but became an integral -part of modern science. +Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, one of the first microscopists and microbiologists, +areas that became an integral part of modern science. Computer data is represented in nothing more than electrical pulses, which are also invisible to the naked eye. A method of displaying this data had to be