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| The invention of the microscope is
closely related to the invention of the telescope. In fact, both these
instruments share the same optical structure, with only some minor
differences. The telescope has been invented at the end of 1500 in Holland.
http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/instruments/telescope.html
It seems the first compound microscope has been built in the 1595 about http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/museum/janssen.html In the 1614, the greek Desmesianos, member of the "Accademia dei Lincei"called this instrument Microscopium. This name was then spread by the german physicist Johann Faber. |