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Invention of Microscope

Netherlands · Science / Technology. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1590Date range
1Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1590

Zacharias Jansen1590

Science / Technology

Invents the Compound Microscope

Names involved

Zacharias Jansen

Provenance

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