-=> Quoting Dan Ceppa to Nancy Backus on 01-25-06  02:14 <=-

 JB>> I'll bite, who's Leovenhoek?
 DC>> He used a telescope as a microscope.
 NB>> 
 NB>> And discovered bacteria and spermatozoa swimming around (1683).
 
 NB>> Are you sure he used a telescope rather than a microscope, though? 
 NB>> There were* microscopes around then, the compound microscope invented
 NB>> in 1590 by Jannsen, and the double convex microscope in 1611 by Kepler.
 NB>> I don't remember what the resolution on them was, though.

 DC> I always thought that Loevenhoek made the microscope.  

He may have made refinements to it, but from the dates, you can see that
there were earlier forms of microscopes a century or so before him.

ttyl       neb

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