First invented in the late 16th century by Hans and Zacharias Janssen, a Dutch father and son team, the first so-called compound microscope was invented by discovering that if they put a lens at ...

A Dutch father-son team named Hans and Zacharias Janssen invented the first so-called compound microscope in the late 16th century when they discovered that, if they put a lens at the top and ...

For millennia, the smallest thing humans could see was about as wide as a human hair. When the microscope was invented around 1590, suddenly we saw a new world of living things in our water, in ...

Are you smarter than a fifth-grader? Zacharias Janssen, a Dutch 10-year-old, is said to create the first compound microscope using multiple lenses in a tube. (We're guessing his father ...

There’s some debate over who invented the compound microscope, but many credit the Dutch eyeglass maker Zacharias Jansen and his father Hans with creating the first such device in the 1590s.

In 1590, Hans and Zacharias Janssen, a Dutch father-and-son team of spectacle-makers, created the first microscope. Solemn Anzac ceremony marred by neo-Nazi gatecrashers ‘Exhilarating’ new ...