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Two dutch spectacle makers named Zaccharias Jannsen and his son Hans made the first compound microscope.
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A man named Robert Hooke used a compound microscope to see cells. He thought that the cells looked like chambers, so he named them cells.
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The father of microscopy is a man named Antoni van Leeuwenhoek made over 240 different microscopes.
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