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nov 28, 1656 - Microscope Invented

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The precise date of the invention of the microscope is unknown, but it is known that the first microscope was developed in the Netherlands by three men, Zaccharias Janssen, Hans Janssen, and Antony Van Leeuwenhoek.

Finely ground lenses had been around for 20 or so years.

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