Compound microscope (cropped)

History of microscope

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  • 1590-First simple compound microscope discovered

    1590-First simple compound microscope discovered
    Zaccharias Janssen and Hans Janssen discovered to first compound microscope. Compound Microscope allows lights to pass through the specimen and use two lenses to form an image.

  • 1674-First microscope with one lens

    1674-First microscope with one lens
    Dutch merchant Anton van Leeuwenhoek used a microscope with one lens and it canobtained a magnification of
    nearly 300 times. He is called "Father of Microscopy" and he created more than 240 microscopes.

  • 1665- Cells was discovered by using crude microscope

    1665- Cells was discovered by using crude microscope
    Robert Hooke used a crude microscope and discovered cells by using this microscope. And he is the first people describe the smallest unit of life as cells.