The answer is that over the many years they have discovered clearer more zooming things.
The only way to see cells is with a microscope. The earliest scientist had to use a rather primitive one.
The compound microscope is the simple microscope used in the early days for higher magnification to view specimens such as cells. The compound microscope is the standard microscope used commonly nowadays. The digital microscope is a type of optical microscope which makes use of camera and optics to be able to view the images from the microscope to the computer.
You would use an electron microscope to view a Golgi apparatus.
scanning electron microscope
microscope
Early light microscope
The only way to see cells is with a microscope. The earliest scientist had to use a rather primitive one.
The light microscope use the visible light; the electron microscope use an electrons beam.
magnifiers
Zacharias Janssen's first microscope was called the "simple microscope" or "single lens microscope." It consisted of a single convex lens and was an early version of the compound microscope.
We use light microscope because it is better for our eyes!!
compound microscope
when you carrying a microscope you should use your hands
We would normally use a microscope to do this.
There are several type of microscopes, mainly, the one that we use in lab is a simple light microscope or a compound microscope. Then we have the phase contrast microscope, fluorescent microscope, electron microscope (transmission electron microscope [TEM] and scanning electron microscope [SEM]), confocal microscope and even dissection microscope the one which we use during dissections.
An early microscope was made in 1590 in Middelburg, Netherlands. Two eyeglass makers are variously given credit: Hans Lippershey (who developed an early telescope) and Hans Janssen. Giovanni Faber coined the name microscope for Galileo Galilei's compound microscope in 1625
Galileo Galilei was the first to use a telescope to observe the stars. He made significant astronomical discoveries, such as the moons of Jupiter and the phases of Venus, which supported the heliocentric model of the solar system.