jan 1, 1590 - Hans and Zacharias Janssen Created the First Compound Optical Microscope
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They were experimenting with lenses in tubes and found that the object at the end of the lens was enlarged more than a magnifying glass. To produce this microscope, they placed two convex lenses inside of a tube.
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