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Zaccharias Janssen and his son Hans
They were just two normal dutch spectacle makers who were just trying to experimenting different lenses in a tube and found out that everything around them was bigger that the thing they were looking at. That is how the made the first microscope. The microscope that they made was just a tube with a lense on each side of the tube. -
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke used a crude microscope to look a thin slice of cork. The Things that he say throw the microscope reminded him of his time when he was in a small rooms where monks lived in. So he called it cells cause it looks like prison cells. He was the first person to name the smallest unit of life -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
He built a simple microscope that was very strong. He was the first person to make the microscope good. With the simple microscope that he made he could see a lot of things.