Microscope
InventorAntonie van Leeuwenhoek
Year1670s
CategoryScience
OriginNetherlands
About Microscope
Leeuwenhoek ground lenses that magnified 270x, revealing bacteria, sperm, and blood cells. He never wrote a formal paper, communicating only through letters to the Royal Society. Robert Hooke built the first compound microscope earlier but with less magnification.
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