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About 1590, two Dutch spectacle makers, Zaccharias Janssen and his son Hans, were experimenting with several lenses in a tube. They discovered that nearby objects appeared larger than before.
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Galileo is the father of modern physics and astronomy. He heard about these early experiments and created a munch better instrument with a focusing device.
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Giovanni Faber coined the name for the microscope.
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In this kind of microscope, the electrons are speeded up in a vacuum, until their wavelength is extremely short, only one hundred-thousandth of that of white light.
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If pushed to the limit, electron microscopes can make it possible to view objects as small as the diameter of an atom. It can even magnify objects up to one million times its size.
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This microscope has incredible magnification (up to 2000x) and has clarity and durability in a home.
