The light microscope also called the optical microscope uses visibale light and a system of lenses. The actual inventor is difficult to name although Galileo's microscope was celebrated in 1624 and was the first such device to be given the name "microscope". There are claims that a Dutch spectacle-makers Hans Janssen and his son, Zacharias Janssen, but this was a declaration made by Zacharias Janssen himself during the mid 1600s.
The Romans didn't invent the microscope
Robert Hooke did invent the microscope
him and his son helped invent the compound microscope by putting two lenses together warning they did not invent the microscope but did invent the compound microscope
Galileo Galilei invented the light microscope in 1609. His invention was a great improvement and had both convex and concave lenses.
What year did Robert Hooke invent his first microscope
No
Zacharias Janssen was the first person to invent the microscope and the kind of microscope he made was a compound microscope--a microscope that uses two or more sets of lenses. Plus, the first compound microscope (by Zacharias) was made around 1595 in Middleburg, Holland.
Theodor Schwan did not invent the microscope. Hans and Zacharias Jansen did. He produced the 1st compound microscope in the late 1500's.
1677 was when he invented the microscope
i b lieve it was the electron microscope!
Microscope
compound light microscope - cell theory - electron microscope