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Zacharias Jansen's invention of the first light microscope.
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Zacharias Jansen and his father Hans started to experiment creatiing the compund microscope.
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Galileo Galilei develops a compound microscope with a convex and a concave lens.
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Joseph Jackson Lister created an achromatic lens to eradicating the chromatic effect caused by different wavelengths of light.
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Ernst Ruska starts to build the first electron microscope.