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_______ invented the microscope
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Explanation:
Zacharias Janssen, credited with inventing the microscope. For millennia, the smallest thing humans could see was about as wide as a human hair. 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.
Zacharias Janssen
But it's unclear who invented the microscope.Some historians say it was Hans Lippershey,most famous for filing the first patent for a telescope.Other evidence points to Hans and Zacharias Janseen , a father son team of spectable makers living im the same town as Lippershey.
History of microscope:-
Hans Lippershey also spelled
Lipperhey was born in Wesel,Germany in 1570,but moved to Holland,which was then enjoying a period of innovation in arts and science called the Dutch Golden Age.In 1650,Borrel wrote a letter to physician of French King in which he described microscope.In his letter,Borrel said Zacharias Jaanssen started writing to him about a microscope in the early 1590s,although Boreel only saw a microscope himself year later.Some historians argue Hans Janseen helped build the microscope,as Zacharias was a teenager in 1590s.