Dutch spectacle-makers Hans Jansen and his son Zacharias... - Historystack

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Dutch spectacle-makers Hans Jansen and his son Zacharias Jansen invent a compound microscope, which uses 2 lens and allows for much higher magnification

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Dutch Republic

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Reproduction of an optical device made by Zacharias Snijde

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Milky Way, Solar System, Earth, Europe, Modern History, Science and Technologies, 16th Century, Inventions, History of Netherlands, Dutch Republic, Physics, 1590s, Optics, Microscope, Lens (Optics), Zacharias Jansen

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