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Who Invented the Microscope?<\/strong>\u00a0The first microscope was invented in 1590 by the\u00a0Dutch Zacharias Janssen<\/a><\/strong>. This inventor created the optical microscope composed of two lenses. He developed this instrument with lenses that were made by his family. The microscope was a great innovation for those times, for being an instrument that allows us to see objects or organisms that are too small to be observed by our eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The term microscope comes from the combination of two Greek words like micros which is \u201csmall<\/strong>\u201d and scope which means \u201cto look<\/strong>\u201c, for what it describes this object is capable of observing really tiny objects.<\/span><\/p>\n

The branch of science that studies very small objects with microscopes is called microscopy. Janssen\u2019s microscope had as dimensions a tube 45 centimeters long and 5 centimeters thick. It also had a convex lens on each side, in order to have a magnification of the observed object between 3 and 9 times depending on the aperture of the diaphragm.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who Invented The Microscope In Which Year?<\/span><\/h2>\n

This\u00a0first microscope was optical<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0because it contained two lenses. This apparatus was capable of generating a larger image of the object that was observed and operated by refraction.<\/span><\/p>\n

The development of the microscope allowed science and scientific research to advance a lot since from this invention it was possible to study important objects invisible to human sight. Before the microscope, these types of studies could not be done exactly, because they were not visible. With the microscope, it was possible to observe structural, cellular, and component aspects found in people, animals, plants, rocks, and in all kinds of living and even inert organisms.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before the invention of the microscope, it was not known how the smallest structures in nature were or how they worked.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another important advance occurred in the year 1665 when it is described in a text by William Harvey how he used the microscope to observe blood capillaries. Sometime later Robert Hooke used the microscope to look at a thin piece of cork and was able to see that the material was porous and that it looked like small cells that he named cells.<\/span><\/p>\n