When the microscope was invented around 1590, suddenly we saw a new world of living things in our water, in our food and under our nose. But it's unclear who invented the microscope. Some ...

The scientific community, Hooke complained, believed there was “no more to be done” with the microscope. There’s some debate over who invented the compound microscope, but many credit the ...

His microscopes were little more than powerful ... But he also hinted that he had invented his own advanced method of glass-blowing "with which nonspherical lenses could be produced"—a remark ...

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