History of Magnification

  • Circa 1000AD
    Jan 31, 1000

    Circa 1000AD

    The first vision aide was invented called a reading stone.
  • Circa
    May 16, 1284

    Circa

    Italian, Salvino D'Armate invented the first wearable eyeglasses.
  • 1590

    1590

    Two dutch eye glass makers Zacharias Janssen and son Hans Janssen created the compound telescope.
  • 1665

    1665

    Robert Hooke noticed there were pores or cells in it.
  • 1674

    1674

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek invented a way to see bigger spaces from a telescope.
  • 1830

    1830

    Joseph Jackson found out that if you put small lens together then you will be able to see farther.
  • 1872

    1872

    Ernst Abbe discovered that we can actually see through the whole size of a telescope.
  • 1932

    1932

    Fritz Zernike invented the phase contract microscope that allowed for the study of colorless and transparent biological materiels.