1610: precious testimony
1614: Galileo speaks of the microscope
1619: Drebbel's microscopes
1623: a telescope to see objects close up
1624: a 'thing of great consequence for medicine'
1624: Galileo's gift to Cesi
1625: the name of the instrument
1625: the copy of the Apiarium
1625: the Melissografia
1625: the Apiarium
1628: Galileo sends a microscope to Philip of Hesse
1630: Galileo sends a microscope to the King of Spain
1630: the grain weevil
1631: the drawing of the compound microscope
1633: microscopic image of a plant
1642: death of Galileo
1643: the lymphatic vessels
1644: the microscope 'a perlina'
1644: the fly's eye
1645: atomism and microscopy
1646: the Ars magna lucis et umbrae by Kircher
1646: Fontana claims credit for discovering the microscope
1654: the testimony of Viviani
1655: Dutch origin of the instrument?
1656: the glandular system
1657: foundation of the Accademia del Cimento
1658: the red blood cells
1658: a discovery made with thin anatomy
1660: the Royal Society
1661: Malpighi's studies of the lungs
1662: Bellini's studies of the kidneys
1665: Hooke's Micrographia
1665: Divini's microscopes
1665: studies on the tongue
1665-1666: the sensorial recepters
1667: end of the activity of the Accademia del Cimento
1667: observations on the muscles
1668: Redi and the confutation of spontaneous generation
1669: Malpighi's studies on the silk worm
1669: Swammerdam's studies on insects
1671: La dioptrique oculaire
1672: Malpighi's studies on plants
1673: Malpighi's studies on the formation of baby chicks
1674: Leeuwenhoek discovers the protozoans
1677: Leeuwenhoek's microscopic observations
1680: microscopy and mechanism
1683: the catalogues
1683: Leeuwenhoek discovers bacteria
1683: the laws of mechanics in physiology
1684: Redi and parasitology
1685: the Biblia Naturae
1686: Campani's microscopes
1687: the parasitological nature of scabies
1691: the horizontal microscope