Who designed the microscope?

Answer 1

The term microscope technically applies to any magnifying arrangement of lenses, one or many.

Single lens magnification has been known since about 1000 AD and no inventor is recorded by history.

Around 1590, several individuals compete for recognition as the inventor of the compound microscope which is a microscope using two or more lenses. See the link below to the related question, "Who invented the microscope?"

About 1670, Anton van Leeuwenhoek dramatically increased the magnifying power of the simple microscope.

Answer 2

1.During the 1st century AD (year 100), glass had been invented and the Romans were looking through the glass and testing it. They experimented with different shapes of clear glass and one of their samples was thick in the middle and thin on the edges. They discovered that if you held one of these lenses over an object, the object would look larger. Someone also discovered that you can focus the rays of the sun with one of these special glasses and start a fire. These early lenses were called magnifiers or burning glasses. The word lens by the way, is derived from the latin word lentil, as they were named because they resembled the shape of a lentil bean These lenses were not used much until the end of the 13th century when spectacle makers were producing lenses to be worn as glasses.

2.Sometime about the year 1590, two Dutch spectacle makers, Zaccharias Janssen and his father Hans started experimenting with these lenses. They put several lenses in a tube and made a very important discovery. The object near the end of the tube appeared to be greatly enlarged, much larger than any simple magnifying glass could achieve by itself! They had just invented the compound microscope (which is a microscope that uses two or more lenses).

3.Robert Hooke,Anthony Leeuwenhoek, Galileo

3.Little was done to improve the microscope until the middle of the 19th century when great strides were made and quality instruments like todays microscope emerged. Companies in Germany like Zeiss and an American company founded by Charles Spencer began producing fine optical instruments. Today, there are no microscope manufacturers in the US and most of the microscopes come from Germany, Japan and China. Toy plastic microscopes should be avoided as they do not achieved the level of quality of the basic instruments with metal frames and glass lenses.

4.Because of foreign production, quality microscopes have become affordable for all. Zaccharias Janssen, the inventor of the microscope would marvel at the quality of even the most basic microscopes found in schools today.

Answer 3

I am pretty sure that Zacharias Janssen designed the first microscope

Answer 4

He Was the Father of the microscope. his name was Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek

Answer 5

Robert Hooke, didn't you know that..... listen to your science teacher

Answer 6

van Leeuwenhoek was known for making the world's first "practical microscope" by devising special lenses.