INTRODUCTION TO MICROSCOPY CELL BIOLOGY
MICROSCOPY
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Hans Janssen and his son made one of the first compound microscopes.
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Robert Hooke improved the microscope by adding an oil lamp.
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Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek made a simple microscope that could magnify up t o 260 times.
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The modern compound light microscope was invented.
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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: -The first compound microscopes date to 1590. These devices use more than one lens, a step above most single magnifying lenses or glasses. The actual inventor is contested because there were several people at work on them, but father and son team Hans and Zacharias Jensen are usually credited.
Detailed explanation-3: -Alleged invention of the telescope and microscope. Over the years there have been claims Zacharias Janssen invented the telescope and/or the microscope in Middelburg between 1590 and 1618.