MICROANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -A Dutch father-son team named Hans and Zacharias Janssen invented the first so-called compound microscope in the late 16th century when they discovered that, if they put a lens at the top and bottom of a tube and looked through it, objects on the other end became magnified.

Detailed explanation-2: -Zacharias Janssen is generally believed to be the first investigator to invent the compound microscope. However, because the accomplishment is generally agreed among historians to be dated in the 1590s, most scholars believe that his father, Hans, must have played an important role in the creation of the instrument.

Detailed explanation-3: -Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723): father of microscopy.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hans and Zaccharias Janssen-Were the first men who developed the concept of the Compound Microscope. In the 1590s Dutch lens maker-Hans and Zaccharias Janssen (father and son) designed the device that can magnify objects. They used several lenses and placed them in the tube.