History of the Microscope

  • The begining of the Microscope

    The begining of the Microscope

    Two dutch spectacle makers named Zaccharias Jannsen and his son Hans made the first compound microscope.
  • The Naming of Cells

    The Naming of Cells

    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.
  • The Father of Microscopy

    The Father of Microscopy

    The father of microscopy is a man named Antoni van Leeuwenhoek made over 240 different microscopes.

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