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 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.
- Helen Purtle, The Billings Microscope Collection of the Medical Museum, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (Second Edition) Washington, DC: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 1974 (Reprinted 1987).[https://web.archive.org/web/20090129140301/http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/microscope/index.html]
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