Magnification Has a long history Through glasses of water Se-nekka did larger see [Break] And Emperor Nero It is said did better sight With a polished emerald His gladiators fight [Break] ‘Round the year 12-90 In Central Italy Eyeglasses, it is said There-inn were invented [Break] But the first microscope What we call “Comm-pound” Was made in 15-90 In the Netherlands [Break] A father-son team Hans and Zach Janssen Put two lenses in a tube Which raised magnification [Break] Then in 16-65 Englishman Robert Hooke Published “Micro-graphia” An illustrated book [Break] Through comm-pound microscope In cork, he saw empty holes Like the rooms in which monks stayed That’s how “cells” got their name [Break] Back to the Netherlands Where a cloth-trading man Antonie van Leeuwenhoek A mighty microscope took [Break] Enlarged near three hundred times He saw single-celled Life As well as bacteria Blood flow, muscle fiber [Break] Thought as the “Father” of Micro-biology This was just eleven years From the “cells” Hooke did see [Break] Then in 18-30 Joseph Jackson Lister An English wine-merchant Made microscopes much clearer [Break] By changing spacing of lens parts Images were made more sharp With less colour distortion Called “Chromatic Aberration” [Break] Then in same decade Two German scientists Named Theodor Schwann And Matthias Schleiden [Break] Theorised that cells Make up all that dwells As animal and plant, but Did not know of organelles [Break] It would be a century Till inside cells we could see Electrons, not light Gave view more precise [Break] German scientists again Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll Invented this new device Which for Ernst won Nobel Prize [Break] Magnification From ancient world till today Was raised 50 million times Through new thoughts and designs [Break] From cells to their organelles Then chromosomes, pro-teens To Double Hee-lixx D-N-A All of Life we now survey
