Advances in Optical Imaging for Clinical Medicine (Iftimia/Imaging for Clinical Medicine) || Introduction to Optical Imaging in Clinical Medicine

✍ Scribed by Iftimia, Nicusor; Brugge, William R.; Hammer, Daniel X.

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 473 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 0470619090
• DOI: 10.1002/9780470767061.ch1

✦ Synopsis

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1.1 BRIEF HISTORY OF OPTICAL IMAGING

Throughout history, as soon as a piece of optical apparatus was invented, human beings have used it to gaze both outward and inward. The refractive power of simple lenses made from quartz dates back to antiquity. The modern refractive telescope was invented in the Netherlands by Lippershey in 1608 and refined and used widely by Galileo in Italy during the Renaissance to discover the satellites of Jupiter, among other extraterrestrial objects. The modern microscope was also invented in the Netherlands several years earlier, in 1595, by the same lens and eyeglass makers (Lippershey, Sacharias Jansen, and his son, Zacharias). Soon thereafter it was used to probe the microarchitecture of the human cell.