WHO DISCOVERED THE FIRST MICROSCOPE? Was it Janssen Or Lippershey?
Who Discovered The First Microscope For decades, the only smallest thing that human being could see was as wide as a human hair. But, after the microscope was invented around 1590, suddenly we (Humans) saw a new world of different living things in our water, our food and under our nose. But it was unclear about who invented the microscope. Some historians claimed that it was Hans Lippershey, who was famous for filling the first patent for a telescope. While other evidence points to Hans and Zacharias Janssen, a father- son team of spectacle makers living in the same town as Lippershey. Was it Janssen Or Lippershey? Hans Lippershey, which can also be spelled as Lippershey, was born in Wesel, Germany in 1570, but he moved to Holland, which at that time he was enjoying a period of innovation in art and science called “The Golden Age". Lippershey settled in Middelburg, where he made spectacles, binoculars and some of the earliest microscopes and...