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Christopher Cock

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Christopher Cock was a London instrument maker of the 17th century, who supplied microscopes to Robert Hooke. These microscopes were compound lens instruments, which, unfortunately, suffered greatly from spherical aberration.

Bibliography

  • Chapman, Allan and Paul Kent (2005). Robert Hooke and the English Renaissance. Leominster: Gracewing.
  • Inwood, Stephen (2003). The Forgotten Genius: The Biography Of Robert Hooke 1635-1703. San Francisco: Mcadam/Cage.


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