Image from Micrographia showing cork wood samples. One of the peculiar things he noticed was these interconnected little boxes or ‘cellula’ in his cork samples - marking one of the earliest glimpses into plant cell walls and the “valves” connecting them!

🔬 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗳𝗮𝗿 𝘄𝗲’𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲!
The humble compound microscope gave way to the #electronmicroscope (1930s), then the #confocalmicroscope (1950s) with which we could obtain high resolution images.

🧪360 years later we are tracking #singlemolecules and can even create 3D images of samples based on “feel”🤯