It’s not clear who constructed the first microscope, but the Dutch spectacle maker Zacharias Janssen(b.

1585)
is credited with making one of the foremost emulsion microscopes( bones
that used two lenses) around 1600.
The foremost microscopes could magnify an object up to 20 or 30 times its normal size. Leeuwenhoek with
his microscopeWellcome Collection( CC in) oil painting oil by Ernest Board of Leeuwenhoek with his
microscope. Wellcome Collection( CC in) Image sourcefor Leeuwenhoek with his microscope In the 1660s,
another Dutchman, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek( 1632- 1723) made microscopes by grinding his own lenses.
His simple microscopes were more like magnifying spectacles, with only one lens.

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