By: Luis Robles

There is many types of microscopes but the main one is the compound microscope. This kind of microscope is used to enlarge something to small or invisible to the naked eye. The microscope is used in science to look at bacteria, cells, bugs, all types of things that look small. It is also used in medicine to look at diseases and all kinds of viruses closely, so doctors can examine them more closely and do tests with them.

 The microscope was invented in 1590 the Patent for the microscope was denied because it couldn’t be kept secret as many people had claimed it theirs

The inventor of the microscope was Hans Lipperhey. He was born in Wesel, Germany then settled in Middelburg, Zeeland were he married and became a citizen. He was good at making lenses. One day he was experimenting with the lenses and he put them in a tube he found out that if you put them together they can greatly magnify something small, more than the ordinary magnifying glass. Later on Galileo Galilei heard of his experiments and decided to put a focusing device on the microscope. People kept on adding more and more to the microscope until we have today's modern microscope.