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1595 – microscope
While optics and the principles of magnification had been studied for hundreds of years, the first real microscope was crafted by three lensmakers in Holland around 1595. PRECURSOR: SUCCESSOR: 1608 – telescope 1632 – van Leeuwenhoek
1564 – Galileo – bio
Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy in 1564. He was an astronomer, physicist, mathematician and philospher. Galileo made improvements to the newly invented telescope and then used it to discover and make observations of the moons around Jupiter and published his findings advocating the heliocentric ideas authored by Copernicus. Galileo taught at the University [...]
