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WHO DISCOVERED IT: The Romans
WHEN: 1st Century AD
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The proccess of making  the microscope let scientists  make new discoveries  in the body and its diseases. It's not clear who invented the first microscope, but have a generaly idea that it was a Roman.

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MODIFICATIONS: Lenses and Focusing
MODIFIER: Galileo
WHEN: 17th Century
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Galileo built his 'occhiolino' in the 17th Century, and it was the first to name the 'microscope' from the Greek 'micron'

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Zacharias Janssen invented the first compound microscope in the late 1590 when they discovered that, if they put a lens at the top and bottom of a tube and looked through it, objects on the other end became magnified.

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MODIFICATIONS: Much smaller in size but  magnified larger MODIFIER: Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
WHEN: Around 1665
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around 1665, Anton van Leeuwenhoek learned to grind lenses and used to make hand held microscopes. the microscopes were not normal microscopes made of two or more lenses but custom magnifying glasses made with  ground lenses.

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MODIFICATIONS: Greater magnification and resolution. better image of specimen.
MODIFIERS: Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska
WHEN: 1931
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in 1931, Ernst Ruska made a magnetic coil could act as an electron lens, and used several coils in a row to build the first electron microscope.