On 24 Jan 06  10:58:52, Nancy Backus got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: spelling was: BW help

 DC>> ... Loevenhoek out, and someone will bite.
 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.

I always thought that Loevenhoek made the microscope.  



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