Where was the first simple microscope invented?

Microscopes were thought of by the First-century Romans who experimented with different shapes of glass and found the convex shape could magnify. An Arabian scholar, Ibn al Haitham, (962-1038), in his treatise on optics, Opticae Thesaurus Alhazeni Arabis, discussed the ability of a light-passing sphere to enlarge an image.

There is much disagreement as to who made the first microscope. Some point to Dutch spectacle-makers Zacharias and Hans Janssen in the early 17th century, who made an adjustable tube with two lenses, one biconvex and one planar convex. Others say the first 'scope-builder was their colleague Hans Lippershey, and others have even argued it was Galileo.

Regardless of who first "invented" the microscope, the idea spread quickly when British Scientist, Robert Hooke, of England (1665) published his Micrographia in 1665, (which included full-page drawings of fleas, as well as his own pillar-like microscope design).

With his device he looked at a piece of cork (a soft plant tissue found in the bark of cork-oak trees) and to his astonishment saw tiny little box-like rooms. He called them 'cells' which means in Latin "little rooms". Hooke is given the credit of being the first scientist to see the division of living tissue in smaller units. This inspired other opticians to try their own hand at building 'scopes.

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